Difference between revisions of "Limit the size of .log files & the journal"

Limit the size of .log files & the journal (view source)

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 ==== The first topic on this page will briefly cover the '''systemd journal''' ====
-The systemd journal has taken the place of log files though it will happily run in parallel with the standard type log files. These are still created & maintained by default in Arch & Manjaro, which means that even if you delete syslog-ng & all of the /var/log/*log files on reboot you will find the log files have been automatically created again, although this will change in the future.
+The systemd journal has taken the place of log files though it will happily run in parallel with the standard type log files. These are still created & maintained by default in Arch & Manjaro. If you delete syslog-ng & all of the /var/log/*log files on reboot you will find that some log files will be automatically created again. On my machine after having deleted syslog-ng & all of the /var/log/*.log files (except for the Xorg.0.log files), my machine now has the following (wtmp & btmp are created on boot by the /etc/logrotate.conf file) contents in my /var/log/ :
+ journal/
+ squid/
+ Xorg.0.log
+ Xorg.0.log.old
+ btmp
+ faillog
+ lastlog
+ pacman.log
+ wtmp
 ==== The second topic will cover handling log files ====