Systemd journal getting very large on 18.04 - how to reduce?

[Tom H]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 1:18 AM Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 04.08.2018, 20:38 +0100 schrieb Chris Green:
>>
>> I have an Ubuntu 18.04 system and I've just noticed that the
>> /var/log/journal directory is 4Gb, that's way too much.
>>
>> How is it supposed to be limited.
>
> typically logrtate should cover it and rotate and compress it regulary,
> if this does not happen then there is a bug you should report.

journald manages its own log rotation.