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warteeminus321

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[SOLVED] Unable to turn off journald

I disable and stop systemd-journald but it keeps reactivating and running.

Last edited by warteeminus321 (2022-11-12 08:06:46)

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warteeminus321

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Registered: 2022-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to turn off journald

Per manual, it is possible to limit the journal by rate of messages generated. This can effectively almost turn off the journal service.
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sy … conf.html#

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zggzcgy

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to turn off journald

systemd-journald.service can be triggered by other journal sockets, and you can view the relevant trigger sockets. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sy … ocket.html

# systemctl list-dependencies systemd-journald.service
systemd-journald.service
● ├─-.mount
● ├─system.slice
● ├─systemd-journald-audit.socket
● ├─systemd-journald-dev-log.socket
● └─systemd-journald.socket

You can try closing them one by one

systemctl disable --now systemd-journald.service systemd-journald-audit.socket systemd-journald-dev-log.socket systemd-journald.socket

You can also try make service

systemctl mask systemd-journald.service