Bug 974787

Summary:	RFE: journalctl commands to trim on-disk journal by date and size
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matthew Miller <mattdm>
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	systemd-maint
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	cristian.ciupitu, jfilak, johannbg, lnykryn, msekleta, plautrba, rvokal, systemd-maint, vpavlin, zbyszek
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Description Matthew Miller 2013-06-15 20:33:06 UTC

Occasionally, things go wrong on a system, and it's nice to be able to trim log information outside of the regular rotation policy. It would be useful if there were a journalctl command to force-discard persistent logs from before a certain time or down to a certain size.

As I understand it, the current often-suggested procedure is to remove log files manually. A journalctl command would be more elegant and less error-prone.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2014-12-09 02:46:57 UTC

This has been implemented in systemd git now.

Comment 2 Matthew Miller 2014-12-09 03:48:36 UTC

Nice -- thanks!

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