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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Subject: bug#30649: Cuirass service does not rotate its logs
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 17:43:10 +0100
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 05:35:54PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> The cuirass service in GuixSD explicitly extends rottlog so that this
> file is rotated on a weekly basis.  Perhaps you just need to wait a
> little longer?

The problem is not that the file grows too large.

The problem was that after rebooting the server, the file was *replaced*
with newly written content. Maybe the problem is not rotation, but opening
a file in "write" instead of "append" mode...

Andreas