Any logs to show that nix.gc or system.autoUpgrade have run?

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I have nix.gc and system.autoUpgrade enabled in my NixOS config. I assume they’re doing their job, but I’d like to see proof. Do they leave any logs when they run?

I know I can look at when their respective services last ran, but I still just have to assume everything worked as expected.

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systemctl status nix-gc
systemctl status nixos-upgrade
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Logs can be viewed with journalctl. journalctl -u nix-gc.service for example.

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Okay, I may have messed up something with the journal then. I get no log entries.

❯ journalctl -u nix-gc.service
-- No entries --

❯ journalctl -u nixos-upgrade.service
-- No entries --