Excessive Logging problem in /var/log

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 03:27:40PM +0400, Destin J Funk wrote:
> Dear all Ubuntu Users and developers,
> 
> I have a problem. More than 4G in this directory 
> *******@***:~$ sudo du --summarize -h /var/log
> 4.2G	/var/log
> 
It's the systemd journal, the default set-up means that it only starts
throwing away old logs when it reaches 4Gb (there are other limits but
they only really affect it if it's on a small filesystem).

I think that 4Gb is ridiculously large.  Reducing the 4Gb limit can be
done but you need to read the systemd documentation first really.

-- 
Chris Green