[Bug 1790205] [NEW] systemd journals take up too much space, aren't vacuumed automatically

[Benjamin Bach]

Public bug reported:

After running Bionic for 3 months, I had 2.6 GB of journals.

I would not expect from a normal desktop user that they should have to
run commands like `sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=10d`.

I would nominate this command as a sane default to have running at each
reboot to ensure that logs do not exceed 500 MB:

sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=500M

Supposedly, a server should by default retain more logs, so perhaps this
should be implemented through a configuration package "systemd-
configuration-desktop" as a dependency of the ubuntu-desktop meta
package?

** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  systemd journals take up too much space, aren't vacuumed automatically

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After running Bionic for 3 months, I had 2.6 GB of journals.

  I would not expect from a normal desktop user that they should have to
  run commands like `sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=10d`.

  I would nominate this command as a sane default to have running at
  each reboot to ensure that logs do not exceed 500 MB:

  sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=500M

  Supposedly, a server should by default retain more logs, so perhaps
  this should be implemented through a configuration package "systemd-
  configuration-desktop" as a dependency of the ubuntu-desktop meta
  package?

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