[syslog-ng]file to large error

[Hamilton, Andrew Mr.]

Thought I might add that I can get very large files as well.  Well in excess
of 100 MB.  I don't think syslog-ng is limiting the log size.  I'm running
on a Solaris 2.7 box and I have very few problems with syslog-ng.

Drew

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Nate Campi [SMTP:nate@campin.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:17 AM
> To:	syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
> Subject:	[syslog-ng]file to large error
> 
> Just as I'm leaving, I noticed this on my loghost at work (redhat 6.2, UDP
> logging for around 50 hosts):
> 
> Sep  5 18:13:04 loghost syslog-ng[24136]: syslog-ng version 1.4.4 starting
> Sep  5 18:13:04 loghost syslog: syslog-ng startup succeeded
> Sep  5 18:13:04 loghost syslog: klogd startup succeeded
> Sep  5 18:13:06 loghost syslog-ng[24136]: io.c: do_write: write() failed
> (errno 27), File too large
> 
> Obviously I need to rotate the logs more often on that host, but were you
> aware that there is a limit to the file sizes syslog-ng could write to?
> 
> # ls -al /var/log/messages
> -rw----r--    1 root     root      9048923 Sep  5 18:15 messages
> 
> Ok, that's a huge logfile, but I just wanted to post that here in case
> it's relevant.
> 
> --
> Nate Campi
> "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research." -
> Einstein
> 
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