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Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB
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sirgazil |
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Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB |
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Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:14:08 -0500 |
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---- 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.