Agree, /var/log/messages is there for a long time, writing to log is never a problem. Digesting the log is the niche market and it is profitable enough that we

Agree, /var/log/messages is there for a long time, writing to log is never a problem. Digesting the log is the niche market and it is profitable enough that we have a lot of tools in this market (rotation, transmission, parsing, etc)