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

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By experimenting with the above commands one can make an informed decision for themselves, though as mentioned at the beginning of the Journal section, Arch & therefore Manjaro still run both the new systemd journal & the old style log file system in parallel. So if you find the /var/log/*log files to be redundant & you want to be rid of them, various methods would be effective.
By experimenting with the above commands one can make an informed decision for themselves, though as mentioned at the beginning of the Journal section, Arch & therefore Manjaro still run both the new systemd journal & the old style log file system in parallel. So if you find the /var/log/*log files to be redundant & you want to be rid of them, various methods would be effective.


Currently I'm running my system with syslog-ng (& its dependency) deleted. I deleted all of the log files from the /var/log directory (leaving any that are in their own sub-directories), except for Xorg.0.log , Xorg.0.old , lastlog , btmp & wtmp . The deleted log files came back on reboot, but having since deleted them again they have stayed deleted for multiple reboots.
Currently I'm running my system with syslog-ng (& its dependency) deleted. I deleted all of the log files from the /var/log directory (leaving any that are in their own sub-directories), except for Xorg.0.log , Xorg.0.old , lastlog , btmp & wtmp (pacman.log turned up when pacman was used). The deleted log files came back on reboot, but having since deleted them again they have stayed deleted for multiple reboots.


= Managing /var/log/* files =
= Managing /var/log/* files =
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