From: sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>
To: "\"Gábor Boskovits\"" <boskovits@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Help <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:14:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16f9a51c807.e9a97b2618721.4038106980356534103@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE4v=phxd6JcKnhLHndJ7k_9Nqh4nAMOae=71eE1uBOa=b7=pQ@mail.gmail.com>
---- On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 03:38:55 -0500 Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> wrote ----
> sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jan. 12., V, 2:09):
> >
> > ---- On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:04:25 -0500 Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> wrote ----
> > > sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jan. 12., V, 0:18):
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Looking for some boot messages, I discovered that /var/log/messages contains messages since the day I installed the Guix System and the file is around 730 MB now.
> > > >
> > > > Is this normal or should I report this as a bug?
> > >
> > > Do you have log rotation configured?
> >
> > Not that I know of. I installed the Guix System using the graphical installer, and I haven't configured anything about logs myself.
> >
> Guix System has a log rotation service, described here:
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Log-Rotation.html
> could you try to configure it, and see if the problem persists?
I imported the admin module from gnu services, added the rottlog service and reconfigured the system. I didn't import the mcron service nor the base and idutils packages shown in the example. Is that right?
Thanks, Gábor.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-12 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-11 23:17 Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB sirgazil
2020-01-12 1:04 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-12 1:09 ` sirgazil
2020-01-12 8:38 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-12 10:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-12 11:37 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-12 19:03 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-02-12 14:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-13 2:09 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-02-13 12:49 ` sirgazil
2020-01-12 15:14 ` sirgazil [this message]
2020-01-20 22:44 ` sirgazil
2020-01-20 23:07 ` Gábor Boskovits
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