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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <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 =E2=80=98rottlog-service-type=E2=80=99 to
> =E2=80=98%base-services=E2=80=99?  That=E2=80=99ll pull in mcron, but I g=
uess that=E2=80=99s OK.
>
> Thoughts?

That's an even better idea, in my opinion.

Maxim