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Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB |
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Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:42:23 +0100 |
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Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> writes:
> sirgazil <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jan. 12., V, 2:09):
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>> ---- On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:04:25 -0500 Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden>
>> wrote ----
>> > sirgazil <address@hidden> 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?
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>> 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?
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Ricardo