On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:47:48 -0400 Arbol One <arbol...@hotmail.ca> wrote:
> Having said that, I would like to keep my 'events' log showing only > the last two days; as explain here > <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139513/how-to-clear-journalctl>, > using the following command : *journalctl --vacuum-time=2d*. However, > when I use the 'journal' command to see the log record, it shows > dates as back as January-2021. Just for the record, we are in > August-2024. I'm no expert on systemd, nor have I played one on television. However… Rather than do this manually, take a look at the second answer, starting "You don't typically clear the journal yourself." > > What am I doing wrong? Are you doing this as root? If you watch the journal in one terminal (run "journalctl -f" as root), and run that command in another, do you see any interesting entries? If so, please copy and paste them into your reply. On Monday I installed trixie on a virtual machine so I could play with it. Running that command on that machine, I saw the following output (which your email program may mangle): root@testing:/media/disk# journalctl --vacuum-time=2d Vacuuming done, freed 0B of archived journals from /var/log/journal/7ed347a1b9484dae91ba8c621e621d5d. Vacuuming done, freed 0B of archived journals from /var/log/journal. Vacuuming done, freed 0B of archived journals from /run/log/journal. root@testing:/media/disk# Do you see any such output? -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
