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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: More systemdCrap
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:50:09 +0000
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On 10/03/2025 18:45, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2025-03-10 19:40, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 10/03/2025 18:12, Dan Espen wrote:
>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
>>>
>>>> I have an errant service spewing out pages of errors.
>>>>
>>>> It appears that journalctl is not able to clear a single service from
>>>> its log files.
>>>> Anyone know different?
>>>
>>> https://serverfault.com/questions/1053748/how-can-i-ask-journalctl-to- show-records-for-all-units-except-one
>>>
>> What has that got to do with the question?
> 
> Systemd by intentional design can not clear anything from its log files. 
> You should know this.
> 
Of course it can.

The problem is it doesn't do it selectively by service,  only globally 
by time or by size.
IN short journalctl is fundamentally broken.


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