From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:03:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blr8ts4b.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877e1xyn00.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:42:23 +0100")
Hello,
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
> Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> 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.
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-12 19:03 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 [this message]
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
2020-01-20 22:44 ` sirgazil
2020-01-20 23:07 ` Gábor Boskovits
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