[syslog-ng]File size limit exceeded??

Nathan nathank@netflip.com
12 Nov 2002 15:57:44 -0800


On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 01:41, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:27:52PM -0800, Nathan wrote:
> > i keep getting this error every time i try and start syslog-ng the
> > system is redhat linux 2.4.18. any clues on why i'm getting this?
> > thanks. 
> > 
> > io.c: Preparing fd 3 for reading
> > io.c: listening on fd 4
> > syslog-ng version 1.4.17 starting
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'syslog_backend' (0)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'syslog_config' (1)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'resource_list' (2)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'log_source_group' (2)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'afunix_source' (3)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'log_connection' (16)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'log_endpoint_info' (17)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'log_endpoint_info' (18)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'log_endpoint_info' (19)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'log_connection' (17)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'log_endpoint_info' (18)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'log_endpoint_info' (19)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'log_endpoint_info' (20)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'afsocket_source_close_callback' (6)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'unix_address_info' (4)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'object_queue' (4)
> > gc_mark: Marking object of class 'log_source_driver' (4)
> > io.c: Preparing fd 5 for reading
> > io.c: Preparing fd 6 for writing
> > io.c: Preparing fd 7 for writing
> > io.c: Preparing fd 8 for writing
> > File size limit exceeded
> 
> does the program exit in this case? it seems that syslog-ng gets a SIGXFSZ
> signal:
> 
>        SIGXFSZ     25,25,31     C      File size limit exceeded (4.2 BSD)
> 
> did syslog-ng detect O_LARGEFILE during configure? does your filesystem
> support 64 bit file sizes?

yep exits every time with the same error. as far as i can tell
O_LARGEFILE was not detected during configure and it seems thats my
filesystem (ext3 on redhat 7.3) supports 64 bit files sizes. 

-- 
Nathan <nathank@netflip.com>