On Donnerstag, 7. August 2008 23:05 Dan McGee wrote: > I'm actually with Dale here. I find it nice to go all the way back to > the "beginning of time" with my install so I can see exactly what may > have pulled in a now unneeded dep, etc. I just used this on my Eee > yesterday to remove unnecessary packages originally pulled in by > OpenOffice (hsqldb). I would rather old logs never get deleted; but > even more I would rather the file never get touched. You can archive your old logfiles. This at example be my settings in /etc/logrotate.conf for doing this: olddir /var/log/archiv rotate 2 size +4096k compress You can also use a bigger rotate with a less size. But i think this all is a very much personal thing because some wants uncompressed logs archivs, some wants all in one file and so on.-) > 1) pacman.log would return to only being upgrade/install/remove messages. > 2) another log file would be added that contained the verbose stuff. > pacman_messages.log or something. > 3) pacman.log never rotates/deletes. > 4) pacman_messages.log rotates/deletes. Because i use rotate together with compress my favorite is 2). See you, Attila
