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

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The Systemd Journal is capable of advanced functions beyond what has been mentioned here. The above is very good food for thought for people that are wondering if they need to be running '''syslog-ng''' or the like that creates most of the '''/var/log/*log''' files on their systems.

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. I'm ~~currently using /etc/cron~~.~~hourly & a script in~~ the /~~etc~~/~~logrotate~~.~~d directory~~. ~~I'll write further~~ on ~~this later~~.

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.

= Managing /var/log/* files =

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 The Systemd Journal is capable of advanced functions beyond what has been mentioned here. The above is very good food for thought for people that are wondering if they need to be running '''syslog-ng''' or the like that creates most of the '''/var/log/*log''' files on their systems.
-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. I'm currently using /etc/cron.hourly & a script in the /etc/logrotate.d directory. I'll write further on this later.
+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.
 = Managing /var/log/* files =