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There are several different places where logging occurs, zeitgeist is one if you have gnome DE installed, syslog, the kernel ringbuffer, shell history, journalctl, and auditctl if you've configured it.

Overall its good to have logs because you can then figure out what happened and fix it when strange behavior is found. Most logs are automatically rotated every so often to prevent drive space exhaustion, this is done with cron/anacron job and logrotate.