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Okay, so how do I disable journald and switch to something else, without getting rid of systemd completely?

I just set the storage to volatile and the max log size to 10Mbytes and call it a day.

Logs are really only useful at the tail.

Having the previous boot can get you out of a hole if you're dealing with dodgy drivers.

So change it back when you have a dodgy driver to deal with

Put the following in etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/discard.conf

    [Journal]
    Storage=none
    ForwardToSyslog=no
    ForwardToKMsg=no
    ForwardToConsole=no
    ForwardToWall=no

Then restart with

    systemctl restart systemd-journald

See StandardOutput= and StandardError=.

> Oh no! Bad Request > Error: access denied: error in challenge meta-refresh: mismatched token

God I hate the modern web. I get that anti-bot measures are necessary, but at what cost?

You get the exact same information in

$ man systemd.exec

Though reading the question again, I should have probably linked to the equivalent of

$ man systemd-system.conf

as well, that's where you can set the default behavior across systemd, not per-service as the first man page is.

Ok, so I should set these to null? I saw elsewhere someone set journald storage to volatile. Which of these approaches is better?

On Debian, install rsyslogd instead - it's that simple.