From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:09:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sl7fdb5.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9obucoq.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:01:41 +0100")
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Should we include it in the examples and select it by default in the
>>> installer?
>>
>> +1. I too was surprised to have infinitely growing logs out of the box.
>> I think it's a sane default to have a log rotation service enabled.
>
> Alternately, what about adding ‘rottlog-service-type’ to
> ‘%base-services’? That’ll pull in mcron, but I guess that’s OK.
>
> Thoughts?
That's an even better idea, in my opinion.
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-13 2:09 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 [this message]
2020-02-13 12:49 ` sirgazil
2020-01-12 15:14 ` sirgazil
2020-01-20 22:44 ` sirgazil
2020-01-20 23:07 ` Gábor Boskovits
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