Re: More systemdCrap

On 11/03/2025 14:59, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-03-11 15:50, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 11/03/2025 12:17, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-03-11 08:58, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 10/03/2025 22:28, John Ames wrote:

On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:14:19 +0100
"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
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Nothing is broken, it has been intentionally designed this way

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Okay, sure - but that design is stupid.
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Exactly.
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Journalctl should be able to take the One True Logfile and scan it, rewriting items to be retained and discarding items to be deleted .
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Nope.
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That's manipulating information and has legal implications. Yes, that's the intentional reason why systemd refuses to do it.
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So is truncating it to the last day, or the last 25Mbyte. Which it quite happily does.
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And this isn't just truncating it, if it is a flat file it has to be rewritten to exclude the front. If its a database, it has to delete certain records
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And I am sure the first thing any hacker would do would be to write a decent journalctl that would erase his presence selectively
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So I am sorry, your arguments are as full of holes as Eliza's bucket

 Sure.
 Why don't you google around to find a tool that lets you do it? It should be easy, according to you.
 

Really I would in a younger self simply rewrite  it and put the code on Github.
But I am too old and  tired to piss around wiping Poettering's bottom for him.
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