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From: Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: More systemdCrap
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:33:51 -0400
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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?

As another poster said, journalctl is NOT a log editor.
If you don't want to SEE log entries for one service is looks like
journalctl has that feature.

If you want to not have the entries in the log, don't run that service.


-- 
Dan Espen