A Guide to Systemd Journal Maintenance [With Examples]

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Jan 31, 2021

Systemd comes with many built-in features to manage your system logs. In this guide, we explain how you can manage system journals, access your logs and take action on them such as rotating, archiving, and clear logs. We also explain the manual system’s journal clean method and using config file changes.

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