Re: More systemdCrap

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.
 That's manipulating information and has legal implications. Yes, that's the intentional reason why systemd refuses to do it.
 

So is truncating it to the last day, or the last 25Mbyte. Which it quite happily does.
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
And I am sure the first thing any hacker would do would be to write a decent journalctl that would erase his presence selectively
So I am sorry, your arguments are as full of holes as Eliza's bucket

 

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