From: sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: "\"Ludovic Courtès\"" <ludo@gnu.org>, help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 07:49:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1703e9918a6.e90b268f47597.6595890984983736067@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sl7fdb5.fsf@gmail.com>
---- On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:09:34 -0500 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote ----
> 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.
I'd like that too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-13 12:49 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
2020-02-13 12:49 ` sirgazil [this message]
2020-01-12 15:14 ` sirgazil
2020-01-20 22:44 ` sirgazil
2020-01-20 23:07 ` Gábor Boskovits
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