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   Nuno Silva to All   
   Re: ever had 1GB+ kern.log (and syslog)    
   13 Jan 26 11:40:04   
   
   From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-13, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:09:56 +0100, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱   
   wrote:   
   >   
   >> Logrotate should automatically delete older logs. Even in the case of   
   >> flood logs.   
   >   
   > systemd deals with this sort of thing a lot better.   
      
   Really? Care to elaborate? I'd think both would deal with it in some way   
   once configured to do so. Why are you elevating systemd on this regard?   
   What's the killer feature there that logrotate and compatible syslog   
   implementations don't have?   
      
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