On Thu, 2020-02-06 at 16:09 +0000, Philip Hands wrote: > > > I solved this by removing Systemd from my systems. > > > > > > And now what? > Well, since we're apparently meant to be obsessed about what it is > like to accept every default, then let's assume for a moment that you > are asking about rsyslog with the maintainer supplied rsyslog.conf. > > Having just installed this laptop, I can run this: > > # grep -r '5590629f1f60.*delivery successful' /var/log > /var/log/mail.log:Feb 6 14:51:14 rummy dma[164f55.5590629f1f60]: > delivery successful > /var/log/mail.log:Feb 6 14:51:14 rummy dma[164f55.5590629f1f60]: > delivery successful > /var/log/mail.info:Feb 6 14:51:14 rummy dma[164f55.5590629f1f60]: > delivery successful > /var/log/syslog:Feb 6 14:51:14 rummy dma[164f55.5590629f1f60]: > delivery successful > which you'll note is actually triplicating log messages by default.
On a Debian sytem _not_ running systemd: du -sh /var/log 74M /var/log And the binary logs from systemd would of course be much smaller since they are binary. Any numbers? HTH!