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    [–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    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 6 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    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

    [–] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 3 points 6 months ago

    Thanks for this addition ☺️