Hello, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes:
> Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> writes: > >> sirgazil <sirga...@zoho.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jan. 12., V, 2:09): >>> >>> ---- On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:04:25 -0500 Gábor Boskovits >>> <boskov...@gmail.com> wrote ---- >>> > sirgazil <sirga...@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
