On 6/18/20 2:09 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > This is more of what is the recommended practice ... for handling pacman.log? > > Strange question, yes, but pacman.log is one of those that never gets > rotated, etc.. The information in it isn't useful after a few upgrade cycles. > So what is the general practice for dealing with it? > > o Periodically delete it? > o Split it by year with awk and compress it for?? Historical reasons? > o Keep the last year? > > It not one of those things I've ever thought about before, but grepping > (after cleaning up the wide-character right-arrow from 2017/18 timeframe), I > checked and I have 5M of log dating back to 2013. It's not hurting anything, > but that got me thinking? What do others do with it, and is there any > recommended manner for dealing with it? > > I don't see any reason for keeping much of it beyond what you may be asked > to post as part of a bug-report, etc.. which usually wouldn't be more than the > last couple of months for most packages.. > > man 8 pacman doesn't provide any options for dealing with how much to keep > or to truncate. Among other things, it serves as a handy way to tell when you first installed the system. :) I have so many better places to save 5mb of disk space, this doesn't even register in the top 400. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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