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mockingjay
Asked: 2017-05-01 10:42:50 +0800 CST

For how long Linux system logs are stored?

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So that is my question. I googled it but nothing came. I see that the logs I have only covers 24 hours (if the time is not wrong, because it resets on every boot)

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  1. Logs are controlled by logrotate. It keeps a configurable number of *.log.1, *.log.2.gz, ... files (compressing old ones).

    See man logrotate, /etc/cron.daily/logrotate and /etc/logrotate.conf.

    Reading logs can most easily be done with journalctl - see man journalctl, and this article

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