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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/services/base.scm | 2 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 4d1acf1342..450ca3c5d8 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -13186,17 +13186,27 @@ their contents in separate files, possibly compressed. The @code{(gnu services admin)} module provides an interface to GNU@tie{}Rot[t]log, a log rotation tool (@pxref{Top,,, rottlog, GNU Rot[t]log Manual}). -The example below defines an operating system that provides log rotation -with the default settings, for commonly encountered log files. +This service is part of @code{%base-services}, and thus enabled by +default, with the default settings, for commonly encountered log files. +The example below shows how to extend it with an additional +@dfn{rotation}, should you need to do that (usually, services that +produce log files already take care of that): @lisp (use-modules (guix) (gnu)) -(use-service-modules admin mcron) -(use-package-modules base idutils) +(use-service-modules admin) + +(define my-log-files + ;; Log files that I want to rotate. + '("/var/log/something.log" "/var/log/another.log")) (operating-system ;; @dots{} - (services (cons (service rottlog-service-type) + (services (cons (simple-service 'rotate-my-stuff + rottlog-service-type + (list (log-rotation + (frequency 'daily) + (files my-log-files)))) %base-services))) @end lisp diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm index 8d9a563e2b..a0179c0259 100644 --- a/gnu/services/base.scm +++ b/gnu/services/base.scm @@ -2444,6 +2444,8 @@ to handle." (service guix-service-type) (service nscd-service-type) + (service rottlog-service-type) + ;; The LVM2 rules are needed as soon as LVM2 or the device-mapper is ;; used, so enable them by default. The FUSE and ALSA rules are ;; less critical, but handy. |