[systemd-devel] Force rotating the journal?

[Apostolos Bartziokas]

Hello

I am on v196 and i think the rotation worked fine until 194 but i cannot 
be completely sure.

Thanks again.

On 11/28/2012 01:29 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Apostolos Bartziokas
> <barz621 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The journal on my system doesn't respect the SystemMaxUse parameter in
>> /etc/systemd/journald.conf. I set in 30M and it has grown to 70M.
>>
>> The solution i found is to manually delete the journal folder but this is a
>> somehow "brute force" solution and i don't like it. So is there a more
>> "elegant" way of doing this?
>>
>> Sorry for the simple question on this list and thanks in advance.
> Try sending it a signal:
>    http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service
>
> Also note, that older versions of the journal did not always handle
> rotation correctly. Depends on the distribution how many fixes they
> backport.
>
> Kay
>