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

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello,

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> 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