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knowledge-base/KB/Linux/Server/systemd.md

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2022-01-08
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systemd
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Taming the journal's size

Systemd's system journal's size can go out of control. There are some things you can do to keep it in control:

journalctl --vacuum-size=512M
journalctl --vacuum-time=4weeks

Forwarding the journal to /dev/tty12

You really want this? It's basically a leak available with a shortcut.

This is very simple. Just create the file /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/fw-tty12.conf and fill it like this:

[Journal]
ForwardToConsole=yes
TTYPath=/dev/tty12
MaxLevelConsole=info

Then, restart the service:

systemctl restart systemd-journald.service