On 2024-10-25, Andy Smith wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 03:54:58PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: >> I noticed that I have hundreds of files whose names start with >> "popularity-contest" in /var/log. They don't even seem to be logs. >> They seem to be data that popularity-contest sends away. > > popularity-contest does log to the file /var/log/popularity-contest, > which is rotated by logrotate.
It's not really logs, it's the packages list sent. For me it should be in something like /var/lib but not in /var/log It's rotated by the script /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest using savelog and not logrotate > I would also agree that the system log directory is probably not the > best place for such files to be left behind, so that's maybe a wishlist > bug also. I opened a bug for this https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1085020 Feel free to add your point of view
