[syslog-ng]File size limit exceeded??

Balazs Scheidler bazsi@balabit.hu
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 09:28:27 +0100


On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:57:44PM -0800, Nathan wrote:
> 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 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. 

what about checking why O_LARGEFILE was not detected? the config.log would
help here.

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