[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#537833: Bug#537833: Please add a logrotate config for /var/log/ConsoleKit/history

[James Westby]

On Wed Sep 02 03:33:44 +0100 2009 Michael Biebl wrote:
> Is size really an issue? I've been running CK for quite a time and the history
> file has *only* grown to 5 Mb.
> Do you have any numbers/experiences where the history file has grown large?

Until Steve's recent additions to the PAM stack installing pam-ck-connector
would add an entry every time cron ran. This would make the file grow very
large indeed.

> It seems to me, that rotating the history file on a weekly basis somehow defeats
> the purpose of e.g. ck-history --frequent.

ck-history --frequent reads all rotated files, so it includes information for
(rotation period * number of files kept).

> If at all, I'd at least rotate the file on a monthly basis.

That would also work for me. Having some bound is better than no bound,
and with Steve's fixes it doesn't make a big difference what that bound
is.

Thanks,

James