Morethanevil

Thanks for this addition ☺️

Good question, it may depend on the distro afaik

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

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

Glad to help your family, share this wisdom with friends too ☝🏻😃

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Cleanup

Check current disk usage:

sudo journalctl --disk-usage

Use rotate function:

sudo journalctl --rotate

Or

Remove all logs and keep the last 2 days:

sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=2days

Or

Remove all logs and only keep the last 100MB:

sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=100M

How to read logs:

Follow specific log for a service:

sudo journalctl -fu SERVICE

Show extended log info and print the last lines of a service:

sudo journalctl -xeu SERVICE

Did not see it 😅

But I don’t like XFCE

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