kill vlc after suspend

1. kill_vlc_on_resume.service

[Unit]
Description=Kills VLC on resume in order to fix logging spam

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=-/usr/bin/killall vlc
TimeoutSec=0
StandardOutput=syslog
After=suspend.target

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target sleep.target

2. enable service from cmd

sudo cp kill_vlc_on_resume.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl enable kill_vlc_on_resume.service --now

download and install with

sudo wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Red-Eyed/0fdaae7876254dccf4396f33aa1a8875/raw/cd0c31b6e33109250f0c9614855129edd997d1a3/1.%2520kill_vlc_on_resume.service -O /etc/systemd/system/kill_vlc_on_resume.service
sudo systemctl enable kill_vlc_on_resume.service --now
# remove the huge blob in /var/log/syslog
F=/var/log/syslog; X=1000; head -n $X $F > /tmp/tmpfile && mv /tmp/tmpfile $F

This question came original up here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/627519/20661

Wouldn't it be more wise to just empty /var/log/syslog on resume instead of killing VLC?
I created another gist: https://gist.github.com/rubo77/2fe1fef2ff7f5bdd60a88a835f0c5573#file-1-truncate_syslog_after_resume-service

Thanks a lot!

This question came original up here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/627519/20661

Wouldn't it be more wise to just empty /var/log/syslog on resume instead of killing VLC?
I created another gist: https://gist.github.com/rubo77/2fe1fef2ff7f5bdd60a88a835f0c5573#file-1-truncate_syslog_after_resume-service

No, it wouldn't, because we don't want to miss all the logs because of buggy VLC

@rubo77 on linux systems, wget's -o option means logfile location. For output path, its uppercase -O :)

@leberknecht thanks, I corrected my comment