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From: John McCue <jmccue@qball.jmcunx.com>
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Subject: Re: More systemdCrap
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:28:27 -0000 (UTC)
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
<snip>

> It would be very easy to scan the file and copy to a new one deleting 
> specific instances to remove certain classes of logs, but the 
> programmers were too lazy and arrogant to be bothered to do it

IIRC, from articles I read, this journal is a binary file
with some form of database type keys.  So I would think if
it has keys, a function would exist where one can delete a
group of entries similar to what you can do via SQL or in
the old Berkeley D/B.

But based upon this thread, that cannot be done.  So I see
it as a "miss" on the systemd people.  I would think such a
function would be kind of easy to do.

This looks like some kind of key to me :)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Journal#Facility

<snip>

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