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

[sirgazil]

 ---- On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 03:38:55 -0500 Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> wrote 
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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):
 > >  > >
 > >  > > 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?

I imported the admin module from gnu services, added the rottlog service and 
reconfigured the system. I didn't import the mcron service nor the base and 
idutils packages shown in the example. Is that right?

Thanks, Gábor.