Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: More systemdCrap Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:51:14 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <4154alxv4u.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:51:15 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2b7ed091c89f64c79b78af56aa5ae3d2"; logging-data="2130829"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Nge4DQyWYUNGZEDbmxiMn79qrsbAKOio=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:hUTrEf61ZBzWc7LfHcTKfx+qqPA= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 2203 On 11/03/2025 12:23, Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 2025-03-11 00:33, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> 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. >> >> : >> >>      --rotate > > Yes. This remove content from the end of the files. What you can not do > is remove content from the middle of the files. Specifically remove some > content and leave intact other content. This is forbidden in the design > of the systemd journal, the developers refuse to do it. > > That's cos they are lazy arrogant shits -- "In our post-modern world, climate science is not powerful because it is true: it is true because it is powerful." Lucas Bergkamp