Hi Steve, # I'm not a systemd fan. I just happen to run two Debian servers at the # office and gained some experience with systemd ... most of it the hard # and less than pleasant way :-/
Steve Litt writes: > On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 12:45:12 +0100 > Erich Minderlein via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > >> Off Topic : the necessity has arisen >> now, as systemd produces huge logfiles, 0,9 GByte in 10 hours worth >> of log, > > By 0,9 GByte, do you mean nine tenths of a Gigabyte? > >> thens hold only last 10 hours due to space limitations (keeps >> 10% free). These json-logs are a mess, except for illiterates. > > Has anybody else experienced such rapidly growing log files in systemd? > I'd like to bring that up in discussions with dwobes who claim systemd > is wonderful. The rapidly growing log "files" aren't really systemd's fault. The same thing would happen if you tell rsyslog to dump *everything* in a single file and you run the same set of services with the same settings. Ok, so systemd produces a bunch of log messages itself that you would not see on an otherwise identical Devuan machine. But not of the order of ~100Mb/hour, not by default at least. The issue is with systemd's log configuration, the gory details of which you can explore by going down the rabbit hole that starts at https://manpages.debian.org/buster/systemd/journald.conf.5.en.html If you don't want the systemd-journald.service to log anything, just say Storage=none in journald.conf and be done with it. Log messages are still forwarded to a syslog socket so if you have rsyslog installed you should be good. Of course, switching to Devuan may be an easier long term solution :-) Or some other distro that let's you choose your prefered init system. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
