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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: More systemdCrap
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:44:57 +0100
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On 2025-03-12 22:50, John Ames wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:12:28 +0100
> "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>> Perhaps there is - but, as has already been pointed out, if
>>> journalctl can delete records by date, it is certainly *possible*
>>> to delete records by source. Any encryption that does not prevent
>>> the former cannot prevent the latter.
>>
>> It can delete by date, but only from the distant end of the log, not
>> on the middle.
> 
> Because they refuse to allow it in the official utilties, yes. Not
> because it's technically impossible.

Then surely somebody will have done it, because many people want to 
remove entries from the journal. The application to do it will have been 
published somewhere.

Me, I would like to remove the news.debug entries older than a month, 
for instance.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.