Translations:Limit the size of .log files & the journal/8/en
From Manjaro
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/ :