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Also disk space - i don't want to keep 500 MB of failed login attempts just to have a week of syslog available.

• boringuser2 3y ago
  Rotate your logs bud. Also, suppressing these logs is the same as rapidly rotating new logs.
  • quickthrower2 3y ago
    It is not. Deleting my spam folder is not the same as deleting yesterdays email.
  • blueflow 3y ago
    Rotating only splits the data up into N files, not make it consume less space for a week of logs.
    • veave 3y ago
      logrotate compresses logs.