If you're doing this, you probably want to disable saving the binary logs -- journald will still retain recent logs from the current boot, so the status command

If you're doing this, you probably want to disable saving the binary logs -- journald will still retain recent logs from the current boot, so the status commands will still work. Personally, I uninstalled syslog and enabled binary log retention back when I was running F18, and I'm wishing my Ubuntu and Debian boxes had the same ability.