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Is it good practice to run a system without a syslog daemon?
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What if I'm on another minimal distro, like Artix, that doesn't use systemd? Journald is a systemd thing, and I'm not going to install systemd on top of a perfectly good init system.
Use whatever that distro recommends then - which as far as I can tell seems to be
svlogd
for runit based systems. Though you should consult their documentation and make your own decision on which logger to use.