On Fri, 2021-01-01 at 12:15 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > As we start a new year, I'm thinking about data retention in general. > :) > > In my experience, it's pretty rare on an end-user laptop or desktop > system for > logs from much more than the previous boot to be interesting. Maybe I > occasionally want to look back a little while to see if a problem > just > started. It's exceedingly rare that I need (or want) to look back > more than > a month. > > Right now, we don't set MaxRetentionSec, so journal expiry on > Workstation is > entirely based on disk usage. > > Logs can accidentally contain sensitive data, and it's just plain > faster to > work with them when there's less. I propose we set this to something > like > six months by default. Hi, On RHEL/Centos 7. I notice that log rotate default is 4 weeks , I guess this is because is the default of Fedora ... . So we should think the default we use for Fedora one day will be the default for RHEL . I use 52 weeks in my machines or even 104 weeks if they are important, because specially on security issues , we need dig for more than 2 or 3 months and for statistic like watch disk usage , etc Like logrotate, I'd like have journal retention for one year / 52 weeks . Best regards, -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
