failure to remove journal logs ------------------------------ Key: OVIRT-2551 URL: https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-2551 Project: oVirt - virtualization made easy Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Daniel Belenky Assignee: Evgheni Dereveanchin Lately, we've seen an issue where systemd-journal logs dir belongs to the root group and automation (slave_cleanup.sh) fails to remove those logs and eventually fails the entire job. I can think of 2 reasons why we should remove journals: saving disk space and possibly having a clean journal for every job (though it makes debugging hard because we don't have old logs). Anyway, I think that the way we remove journal logs is improper - maybe back when David wrote this (back in 2015) it was the only way, but today we can ask journalctl to handle the logs rotation for us: --vacuum-size=, --vacuum-time=, --vacuum-files= Removes archived journal files until the disk space they use falls below the specified size (specified with the usual "K", "M", "G" and "T" suffixes), or all archived journal files contain no data older than the specified timespan (specified with the usual "s", "m", "h", "days", "months", "weeks" and "years" suffixes), or no more than the specified number of separate journal files remain. Note that running --vacuum-size= has only an indirect effect on the output shown by --disk-usage, as the latter includes active journal files, while the vacuuming operation only operates on archived journal files. Similarly, --vacuum-files= might not actually reduce the number of journal files to below the specified number, as it will not remove active journal files. --vacuum-size=, --vacuum-time= and --vacuum-files= may be combined in a single invocation to enforce any combination of a size, a time and a number of files limit on the archived journal files. Specifying any of these three parameters as zero is equivalent to not enforcing the specific limit, and is thus redundant. I think that we should use --vacuum-time and keep journal logs for 10-15 days.