I too was put off at first when Arch moved from rc.conf to systemd as I found rc.conf simpler to use, though I trust there was a good reason to move as they are

I too was put off at first when Arch moved from rc.conf to systemd as I found rc.conf simpler to use, though I trust there was a good reason to move as they are pretty good at managing the distribution. Rachel mentioned why binary logging makes sense for complicated logs that require rather tricky state machines/regex. Apache for example, in her case. http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/02/10/logs/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/02/10/logs/