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

[Gábor Boskovits]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jan. 12.,
V, 11:42):
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>
> Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> writes:
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> > sirgazil <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jan. 12., V, 2:09):
> >>
> >>  ---- 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):
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> >>  > > 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?

I believe we should. Most distro do that, so that is what the user
expects, I guess.

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> --
> Ricardo
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