Mm. So many nails in this coffin. Many times I've had a need to grep or tail a log in a hurry. This kind of change compromises the entire modus operandi of goo

Mm. So many nails in this coffin. Many times I've had a need to grep or tail a log in a hurry. This kind of change compromises the entire modus operandi of good Unix admins. There must be tens of thousands of Unix-based tools out there that use the syslog(3) interface and I'm damn sure that most of them will not change Just Because Someone At Fedora wants them to. I don't believe a binary format is any more inherently secure than a textual one. Want non-repudiation of logs? Sign them and send them off-box. They would be much smarter to introduce incremental improvements i.e. extend the existing syslog protocol to accept a structured data format; introduce a log signing journal for integrity checks.