Default history cleanup to "Remove every 2 days"

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Currently, out-of-the-box we just let our history and tracelog files
continually grow by default.  We should change the defaults to this so that
on new installs, at least, we will not chew up disk continually.  May want
to consider adjusting this if people left it at the defaults, and tell them
how they can adjust the settings if they want.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 5 Oct 2009 at 1:16

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Well. You could take it a bit further and turn off logging per default.
I mean, who digs in their block log for a hobby? I never did and it's usually 
the
first thing I turn off. The last 11 entries in the main window are completely 
enough
to work with for me.

As long as you can still turn it back on...

Original comment by frederic...@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2009 at 7:19

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It does come in handy for troubleshooting purposes however.  Especially since 
both
peerblock.log and history.db follow the same rules...

Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2009 at 7:22

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If you assume that everyone wants to "shoot troubles" that is true ;)
My guess is that 95% of computer owners simply want "stuff that works" and 
requires
"no maintenance" (we know that it requires ultra-hard work to make stuff work
flawlessly and that no maintenance at all is close to delusional, but that's 
how it
is). My bottom line (and estimation) is: 95% of all PeerBlock users just want 
it to
work. If they wanted to be beta testers, they would have signed up long ago (and
still can).

Original comment by frederic...@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2009 at 7:35

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Agreed - however when people come to us saying "hey, it's broken, fix it!", 
it's nice
to be able to say "um, could you send us the logfiles so we can figure out what
happened?".  

I could be convinced to default it to "Delete every 1 (or 2) days", but 
wouldn't want
to completely disable this by default.  Too many people ask too many questions 
on
various forum sites (and via email) that can only be resolved by going through 
these
logs.  So long as we can make it as least intrusive as possible, I'd like to 
leave
'em active.

Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2009 at 7:41

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It just hits the mark :)

Original comment by frederic...@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2009 at 7:45

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Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2009 at 5:40

• Changed title: Default history cleanup to "Remove every 2 days"

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This issue was closed by revision r190.

Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2009 at 5:41

• Changed state: Fixed