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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: More systemdCrap
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:49:31 +0000
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On 10/03/2025 22:17, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2025-03-10 21:53, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 10/03/2025 20:37, Dan Espen wrote:
>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Ask better questions.
>>>
>>> https://serverfault.com/questions/858843/how-to-disable-logging-for-a- particular-systemd-unit
>>>
>>>
>> 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.
> 
Of course its possible, even with the shit design

>> Why should I have to go to enormous lengths to do something perfectly 
>> routine just because systemd was written by a cunt who said 'my way or 
>> the highway'...
> 
> It is a free system, you can choose not to use it if you don't like it.
> 
> And yes, I would also like to remove some facilities from the journal 
> after some days. Not possible.
> 
Completely possible if you are a competent programmer.
If you can display only a single service you can delete only a single 
service.
Its just *harder* and we know systemd is all about needless complexity, 
not user friendly well written code.



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