Sunil Mohan Adapa 0408998d96
config: Drop RuntimeMaxUse=5% for journal logging
Closes: #2313.

systemd-journald does not (never did) accept size values given in percent of
file system size. Only the defaults work with percent values. Hence our addition
of RuntimeMaxUse= as percent value in configuration file did not work.
systemd-journald outputs a warning to dmesg and ignores the value.

We could change the value to fixed size. We would have to choose a value that
works for systems with less memory (such as 1GiB) and that value would serve
poorly for systems with more memory. Instead, leaving the default value of 10%
for RuntimeMaxUse= might be better. Additional configuration of MaxFileSec=6h
and MaxRetentionSec=2day would also ease the burden in most cases for the low
memory devices. Considering that people did not report issues with status
quo (where the value we have set did not work and default size was used) also
suggests that default value will work. Further, /run filesystem itself seems to
be allocated only 10% of available memory.

Tests:

- Without the patch, start a vagrant machine. Notice that dmesg shows the error
mentioned in the issue #2313. Apply patch and restart the service. Setup is run
for config app. The file /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/50-freedombox.conf will no
longer have the RuntimeMaxUse= directive.

- After reboot, dmesg will no longer show the error. systemctl status
systemd-journald shows that 10% of the size of /run is the max for journal file.

- In config app page, setting various values of log persistence works.

- On a fresh container with the patch, initial setup succeeds and
journald.conf.d file is setup without the RuntimeMaxUse= directive.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
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