Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> 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?

Ludo’.