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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: More systemdCrap
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:50:27 +0000
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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




> 
> 

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