What Linux distro ships with remote logging out of the box at all? Hopefully none, because that would be be absurd. To whom would those logs be sent? That docu

What Linux distro ships with remote logging out of the box at all? Hopefully none, because that would be be absurd. To whom would those logs be sent? That documentation link probably isn't as telling as is suggested, because the next example is for tcp. In the old days before tcp support was widespread (looking at you, Java) it was common to listen for udp on localhost so it was probably a common configuration. There's not much to debate here. Syslog is used everywhere and the main reasoosn are that it is very reliable, trivial to load balance, and popular implementations have integrity checking that is permissible in regulatory environments. You can criticize it for many things, for example that most parsers are much too liberal or that the facility and severity fields are clearly dated, but not for being unreliable.