Hello Karel!

Sunday December 20 2020 09:25, you wrote to Kai Richter:

....
 > Actually fighting that idea of journalctl. OK, nice, new, complex,
 > holistic...

 > There is usualy one need: to keep logs for certain amount of time
 > (based on SLA, based on law, etc.) Looks to me that design focused to
 > zillion switches how to influence/keep disk space, but how to achieve
 > that I have 100% of time frame logged is not so easy. Shall I try to
 > calculate disc space? Shall I rather put there all space to be sure?

 > From man: "...Normally, time-based deletion of old journal files
 > should not be required as size-based deletion with options such as
 > SystemMaxUse= should be sufficient to ensure that journal files do not
 > grow without bounds..."

Look at logrotate which is the normal product to control journal files in
/var/log



Vincent

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