From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maxim Cournoyer Subject: Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:03:00 -0500 Message-ID: <87blr8ts4b.fsf@gmail.com> References: <16f96e63ce6.e740ea7715013.1300724340064878467@zoho.com> <16f974c9c20.b48d7f5715399.7251228229327824340@zoho.com> <877e1xyn00.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38491) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iqiW3-0002IJ-8E for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:03:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iqiW1-00079d-OM for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:03:14 -0500 Received: from mail-qv1-xf32.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::f32]:36160) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iqiW1-00072s-Jm for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:03:13 -0500 Received: by mail-qv1-xf32.google.com with SMTP id m14so3128861qvl.3 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:03:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <877e1xyn00.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:42:23 +0100") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Hello, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > G=C3=A1bor Boskovits writes: > >> sirgazil ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2020. jan. 12.= , V, 2:09): >>> >>> ---- On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:04:25 -0500 G=C3=A1bor Boskovits wrote ---- >>> > sirgazil ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2020. jan.= 12., V, 0:18): >>> > > >>> > > Hi, >>> > > >>> > > Looking for some boot messages, I discovered that /var/log/message= s 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 ins= taller, 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