When I started playing with Linux back around 1996, I started learning the real value of having logs. It took me into my first career in IT. The Unix/Linux valu

When I started playing with Linux back around 1996, I started learning the real value of having logs. It took me into my first career in IT. The Unix/Linux value behind logging everything and quickly getting to the bottom of any problem, was something that was missing from my MS Windows experience. Yet the Event Viewer existed. No, it was rarely all that useful. Somehow lines in a text file... rotated at a predetermined interval... is just so simple yet, completely effective. Through the years I've tried the other tools that are supposed to supplant it yet, I still think it was the best. I'm getting used to the SystemD/JournalD way but, I really did like having a directory full of text files (and gzipped friends from previous days)