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 Message 134,943 of 135,166 
 Carlos E.R. to All 
 Re: ever had 1GB+ kern.log (and syslog)  
 20 Jan 26 02:39:11 
 
From: robin_listas@es.invalid

On 2026-01-20 00:24, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:46:49 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>
>> However, I do have problems with eliminating from the log the hugely
>> verbose news facility, mail facility, and authpriv. With the
>> concoction I have, some parts disappear, because they are not
>> assigned any facility.
>
> Is that really such a big deal, collecting a few gigabytes of extra
> messages that you don’t want? They shouldn’t slow down journal access,
> and can be easily filtered out on queries.

You miss the context. I was reporting a bugzilla. The attachment to
bugzilla have limited size, a few megabytes, and besides, the verborrea
of news make more difficult to trace an issue to developers. I also
remove mail because they are private stuff.

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Cheers, Carlos.
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