On Sun, 2023-04-23 at 12:44 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2023 at 07:53, Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > assuming you can't get rid of the cause of messages flooding the log > > file, could you prevent writing with a filter? After all, only filtering > > when reading would not prevent the unnecessary growth of log files. > > you didn't say which messages, but in systemd 253 there's a new per-unit option > LogFilterPatterns=. > > * A new LogFilterPatterns= option has been added for units. It may be > used to specify accept/deny regular expressions for log messages > generated by the unit, that shall be enforced by systemd-journald. > Rejected messages are neither stored in the journal nor forwarded. > This option may be used to suppress noisy or uninteresting messages > from units. Hi, thank you. There are actually no messages that spam my journal. I just want to know just in case. Regards, Ralf
