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|    Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Carlos E.R.    |
|    Re: ever had 1GB+ kern.log (and syslog)     |
|    16 Jan 26 21:03:55    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:40:30 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:              > Way too complicated.              First you said it couldn’t be done at all -- that it was       “intentionally impossible”, and “intentionally not implemented by the       journal”. Now when I point out it can be done quite easily,       potentially with just a few lines of script, you claim that’s “way too       complicated”.              What I think is, it’s your existing way of laboriously copying and       filtering text-format logfiles with your own (likely regexp-heavy)       custom scripting, that is “way too complicated”, and you are suffering       from something called the “sunk-cost fallacy”, where you don’t want to       throw away all the effort you have put into your existing ways of       doing things, even if the new way is simpler.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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