[syslog-ng] importing old syslog-ng messages

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Mon Dec 29 12:36:44 CET 2008


On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 11:44 -0600, Daniel L. Spells Sr. wrote:
> I am getting:
> 
> "syslog-ng[18859]: Message length overflow, line is split, log_msg_size=4096"
> 
> When I try to cat the log files to the named pipe.  It repeats until it
> completes the lines in the log file.
> 
> This is on a base install on a Suse box.
> 
> 

the message above says that you have messages over 4096  bytes in
length. increase log_msg_size().

-- 
Bazsi



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