[systemd-devel] Questions I got about systemd

[Cecil Westerhof]

On 12/11/2013 07:24 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
>  >>  > Is it possible to do an automatic shutdown when there is no more room
>  >> to for journald to log? (They did not want to have logging removed.)
>  >>
>  >> Currently no. journald tries to never use more than the configured % of
>  >> disk space and rotates away old logs, so it won't ever see a "disk full"
>  >> error. But a syslog daemon might help.
>  >
>  >
>  > The person asking it found it not acceptable that logging
> disappeared. But it could be done by a cron job of-course.
>
> Logging does not disappear; /old/ logs do. If they need to be preserved,

But that was what the original questioner did not find acceptable. He 
found shutting down a better option as removing old logs. I did not 
understand it, but there are more things I do not understand. :-)