&gt; Unfortunately, the Linux monoculture sees bash as the only shell, sysv init as the only pre-systemd init, and the poorly configured rsyslogd distros ship with as the only syslog.<p>People like to make fun of Gentoo, but it does <i>many</i> things right. ;) OpenRC and netifrc are sane and flexible. syslog-ng is the &quot;default&quot; syslog and comes with a reasonable default config file. Use of logrotate is <i>strongly</i> recommended, etc, etc, etc.