From 23685502f3f923930cc9c24a1e2e99b5173d2a37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Luevano Alvarado Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 04:26:29 -0600 Subject: fix typos on arch logs entry, add temp jellyfin entry --- live/blog/a/arch_logs_flooding_disk.html | 7 ++++--- live/blog/rss.xml | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'live') diff --git a/live/blog/a/arch_logs_flooding_disk.html b/live/blog/a/arch_logs_flooding_disk.html index 4b8bd19..8903f85 100644 --- a/live/blog/a/arch_logs_flooding_disk.html +++ b/live/blog/a/arch_logs_flooding_disk.html @@ -91,13 +91,13 @@

It’s been a while since I’ve been running a minimal server on a VPS, and it is a pretty humble VPS with just 32 GB of storage which works for me as I’m only hosting a handful of services. At some point I started noticing that the disk keept filling up on each time I checked.

Turns out that out of the box, Arch has a default config for systemd‘s journald that keeps a persistent journal log, but doesn’t have a limit on how much logging is kept. This means that depending on how many services, and how aggresive they log, it can be filled up pretty quickly. For me I had around 15 GB of logs, from the normal journal directory, nginx directory and my now unused prosody instance.

For prosody it was just a matter of deleting the directory as I’m not using it anymore, which freed around 4 GB of disk space. -For journal I did a combination of configuring SystemMaxUse and creating a Namespace for all “email” related services as mentioned in the Arch wiki: systemd/Journal; basically just configuring /etc/systemd/journald.conf (and /etc/systemd/journald@email.con with the comment change) with:

-
[Journal]
+For journal I did a combination of configuring SystemMaxUse and creating a Namespace for all “email” related services as mentioned in the Arch wiki: systemd/Journal; basically just configuring /etc/systemd/journald.conf (and /etc/systemd/journald@email.conf with the comment change) with:

+
[Journal]
 Storage=persistent
 SystemMaxUse=100MB # 50MB for the "email" Namespace
 

And then for each service that I want to use this “email” Namespace I add:

-
[Service]
+
[Service]
 LogNamespace=email
 

Which can be changed manually or by executing systemctl edit service_name.service and it will create an override file which will be read on top of the normal service configuration. Once configured restart by running systemctl daemon-reload and systemctl restart service_name.service (probably also restart systemd-journald).

@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ LogNamespace=email