SERVICELOG_MANAGE(8)

💅 SERVICELOG_MANAGE(8) — the PowerLinux Diagnostic Tools era 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the servicelog_manage page. it's a section 8 manual (system admin stuff, iykyk), part of the PowerLinux Diagnostic Tools fam, and it's literally your cleanup crew for the system servicelog. let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

servicelog_manage — does the management/maintenance operations on the system servicelog. like, the admin-y chores. the glow-up era for your log. 🧹

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

/usr/sbin/servicelog_manage --status
/usr/sbin/servicelog_manage --truncate {events|notify} [--force]
/usr/sbin/servicelog_manage --clean [--age=days] [--force]
/usr/sbin/servicelog_manage --help

no cap, that's the whole vibe map right there 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so servicelog_manage is the command that performs administrative actions on the system servicelog. think of it as the main character of log hygiene 💅

its whole thing — its purpose, its moment — is mainly purging events, repair actions, and notifications from the database. that's it. that's the job. iconic, honestly.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --status — shows you counts for each type of entry chilling in the servicelog 📊. it's basically the same info you'd get from the servicelog(8) command when you invoke it with no options at all. same energy, different door.
• --truncate {events|notify} — deletes all the events (repair actions included, bestie, they're coming too) or all the notifications. gone. poof. 🫧

⚠️ WARNING: make sure you really want to do this! like fr fr, be so sure. this is not a drill, this is a --truncate.

• --clean — purges the older entries 🧼. by default, this deletes:
  • all repaired serviceable events
  • all repair actions older than 60 days
  • all informational (non-serviceable) events older than 60 days
  • all events older than one year

and good news: that 60-day period may be modified with the --age option 💜

• --age=days — changes the 60-day default for --clean to some other value, measured in days. you're the boss of the timeline now ⏳
• --force — doesn't prompt the user for verification when the --truncate option is used. no "are you sure?" moment, it just goes 🙈

🚨 use with caution! (the manpage says so, and i'm saying so, and we're both right)

• --help — displays a help message 🫶 the safe, cozy option. love that for you.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

written by Michael Strosaker (strosake@austin.ibm.com) and Nathan Fontenot (nfont@austin.ibm.com) — legends, both of them, we stan 🩷

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

servicelog(8) servicelog_notify(8) log_repair_action(8)

the whole friend group, go say hi 💫

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and that's the page, bestie!! this little gem is from Linux, dated February 2012 — vintage but still serving 💀✨ go forth and manage that servicelog responsibly, mwah 💋🎀