[syslog-ng]file to large error

[Balazs Scheidler]

hi,

> 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.

it's not that huge. I've syslog-ng installations where the log file size was
above 1gigs, so I don't think it's syslog-ng which limits the file size.
maybe your log partition was full?

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