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		Dylan16807 on Feb 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New malware abuses Microsoft IIS feature to establ... It's not enough for that, but that bar is too high. Unless the logs are very small, you should not be keeping years of them. I still say 20MB is enough for a desktop.

gerdesj on Feb 18, 2023 [–]

Depends on the desktop. Mine does quite a lot of stuff. /var/log is 8.3Gb and the journal is probably a monster.

Your use case is probably different to mine - I'm a security officer for my firm.

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