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[-] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Actually something I never dug into. But does logrotate no longer work? I have a bunch of disk space these days so I would not notice large log files

[-] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If logrotate doesn't work, than use this as a cronjob via sudo crontab -e Put this line at the end of the file:

0 0 * * * journalctl --vacuum-size=1G >/dev/null 2>&1

Everyday the logs will be trimmed to 1GB. Usually the logs are trimmed automatically at 4GB, but sometimes this does not work

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

If we're using systemd already, why not a timer?

Cron is better known than a systemd timer, but you can provide an example for the timer 😃

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Really, the correct way would be to set the limit you want for journald. Put this into /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/00-journal-size.conf:

[Journal]
SystemMaxUse=50M

Or something like this using a timer: systemd-run --timer-property=OnCalender=daily $COMMAND

Thanks for this addition ☺️

this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2024
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