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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: More systemdCrap
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:59:05 +0100
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On 2025-03-11 15:50, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 11/03/2025 12:17, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-03-11 08:58, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> On 10/03/2025 22:28, John Ames wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:14:19 +0100
>>>> "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Nothing is broken, it has been intentionally designed this way
>>>>
>>>> Okay, sure - but that design is stupid.
>>>>
>>> Exactly.
>>>
>>> Journalctl should be able to take the One True Logfile and scan it, 
>>> rewriting items to be retained and discarding items to be deleted .
>>>
>> Nope.
>>
>> That's manipulating information and has legal implications. Yes, 
>> that's the intentional reason why systemd refuses to do it.
>>
> So is truncating it to the last day, or the last 25Mbyte. Which it quite 
> happily does.
> 
> And this isn't just truncating it, if it is a flat file it has to be 
> rewritten to exclude the front. If its a database, it has to delete 
> certain records
> 
> And I am sure the first thing any hacker would do would be to write a 
> decent journalctl that would erase his presence selectively
> 
> So I am sorry, your arguments are as full of holes as Eliza's bucket

Sure.

Why don't you google around to find a tool that lets you do it? It 
should be easy, according to you.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.