From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sirgazil Subject: Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:14:08 -0500 Message-ID: <16f9a51c807.e9a97b2618721.4038106980356534103@zoho.com> References: <16f96e63ce6.e740ea7715013.1300724340064878467@zoho.com> <16f974c9c20.b48d7f5715399.7251228229327824340@zoho.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58554) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iqewW-0002kW-2K for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:14:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iqewU-0002iy-SF for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:14:19 -0500 Received: from sender4-pp-o94.zoho.com ([136.143.188.94]:25416) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iqewU-0002VX-HC for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:14:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: =?UTF-8?Q?=22G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits=22?= Cc: Guix Help ---- On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 03:38:55 -0500 G=C3=A1bor Boskovits wrote ---- > sirgazil ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2020. jan. 12.= , V, 2:09): > > > > ---- On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:04:25 -0500 G=C3=A1bor Boskovits wrote ---- > > > sirgazil ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2020. jan= . 12., V, 0:18): > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Looking for some boot messages, I discovered that /var/log/messag= es 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 in= staller, 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 an= d reconfigured the system. I didn't import the mcron service nor the base a= nd idutils packages shown in the example. Is that right? Thanks, G=C3=A1bor.