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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: More systemdCrap
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:33:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:17:40 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

> On 2025-03-10 21:53, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>
>> Don't want not to log. Want to look at the logs, clear the problem and
>> delete the debug log as its now enormous
> 
> That's impossible to do, by intentional design.

<https://manpages.debian.org/journalctl(1)>:

    --rotate
        Asks the journal daemon to rotate journal files. This call
        does not return until the rotation operation is complete.
        Journal file rotation has the effect that all currently active
        journal files are marked as archived and renamed, so that they
        are never written to in future. New (empty) journal files are
        then created in their place. This operation may be combined
        with --vacuum-size=, --vacuum-time= and --vacuum-file= into a
        single command, see above.