Why is the rotation of journal files by systemd-journald not periodic?
Issue
systemd-journald
journal files are being rotated at unpredictable times.- Rotated journal files are not looks like it hit a limit by any of
SystemMaxFileSize=
,MaxFileSec=
, or other settings injournald.conf
.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- systemd-journald
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