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    Is there any functional difference between Apple and Microsoft anymore?
                                        
At the Corporation, we use syslog() to log stuff. I know it's not popular
among the hipster crowd, but honestly, I don't find the modern replacements
to be all that great, nor as ubiquitous, as syslog(). So I'm trying to
configure Belial, the annoying Mac Laptop [1], to handle logging from the
various components and nothing I do seems to make any difference. I have
configured the running syslogd on Belial to match that of the older Mac
laptop (and my Mac mini) but nope. No output from any of the components.
That's not to say nothing is being logged, but it's only the programs from
Apple that have any logging. I'm not entirely sure what is going on.

In other Belial-related news, I ran XCode while trying to troubleshoot the
syslog() issue. It didn't help (because Apple no longer allows root to change
certain files without extreme measures, but that's a rant for another time)
but rather more troubling, XCode refused to quit running! There was no way to
quit the application, and I couldn't shutdown the laptop because XCode was
running. I was only able to get it to stop running by forcibly removing power
from the laptop.

Way to go, Apple! <slow clap> 

Update later today …

I think I can answer that question: No difference at all [2]. The hipsters
have won and the old ways should be burned to the ground, and the ground
salted [3].


[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2022/02/17.1
[2] https://www.tutorialguruji.com/cpp/macos-high-sierra-syslog-does-not-work/
[3] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7283845

Email author at sean@conman.org