diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index c88a6ddec6..5e46795a5a 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -1824,7 +1824,8 @@ (define (config->compression-options config)
                      #:environment-variables
                      (list (string-append "GUIX_LOCPATH="
                                           #$glibc-utf8-locales "/lib/locale")
-                           "LC_ALL=en_US.utf8")))
+                           "LC_ALL=en_US.utf8")
+                     #:log-file "/var/log/guix-publish.log"))
            (stop #~(make-kill-destructor))))))
 
 (define %guix-publish-accounts