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From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: help-guix@gnu.org, Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>,
	Andy Tai <atai@atai.org>
Subject: Re: guix on foreign distribution: /var/log/guix/* removal safe?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 07:04:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BFC3482A-FB1C-4AE4-B9D0-E07FBC396755@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5u1sdad.fsf@riseup.net>

Le 5 septembre 2023 01:56:08 GMT+02:00, Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net> a écrit :
>
>Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:
>
>> I run Guix on top of a foreign distribution (Fedora).  The directory
>> /var/log/guix contains  log files and keeps growing in size.  I wonder
>> if I can remove existing log files in /var/log/guix without any
>> harmful effect (with no guix pull or build in progress)?
>>
>> Thanks for info
>
>AFAIK yes.  I've done so a few times.
>

Yes, it's perfectly safe. You could setup a rotation job so you don't have to care about cleaning them manually. See your distro's documentation to learn how to do that ;)


      reply	other threads:[~2023-09-05  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-04 23:28 guix on foreign distribution: /var/log/guix/* removal safe? Andy Tai
2023-09-04 23:56 ` Csepp
2023-09-05  5:04   ` Julien Lepiller [this message]

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