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[Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joshua Harlow has proposed merging ~harlowja/cloud-init:file-logging into cloud-init:master.

Requested reviews:
  cloud init development team (cloud-init-dev)

For more details, see:
https://code.launchpad.net/~harlowja/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/301107
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Your team cloud init development team is requested to review the proposed merge of ~harlowja/cloud-init:file-logging into cloud-init:master.

diff --git a/config/cloud.cfg.d/05_logging.cfg b/config/cloud.cfg.d/05_logging.cfg
index 2e18073..aeecc42 100644
--- a/config/cloud.cfg.d/05_logging.cfg
+++ b/config/cloud.cfg.d/05_logging.cfg
@@ -54,13 +54,21 @@ _log:
 
 log_cfgs:
 # These will be joined into a string that defines the configuration
- - [ *log_base, *log_syslog ]
+#
+# If your desire syslog, just uncomment the following line.
+# - [ *log_base, *log_syslog ]
+#
 # These will be joined into a string that defines the configuration
+#
+# Otherwise by default we just use the most basic (known to work
+# mechanism that does not depend on a system service to operate; which
+# due to cloud-init execution lifecycle we may not always be able to
+# depend on working correctly).
  - [ *log_base, *log_file ]
-# A file path can also be used
+# A file path can also be used.
 # - /etc/log.conf
 
-# this tells cloud-init to redirect its stdout and stderr to
+# This tells cloud-init to redirect its stdout and stderr to
 # 'tee -a /var/log/cloud-init-output.log' so the user can see output
 # there without needing to look on the console.
 output: {all: '| tee -a /var/log/cloud-init-output.log'}