[Fedora] Sendmail's 2GiB limit?

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Chris Mohler wrote:
> If I follow this discussion:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@kannel.org/msg06223.html
>
> you may be able to recompile sysklogd and have it pass the 2g limit.
> It might be easier to move the rotation frequency back to one week,
> and then glom the rotated files together once a month via cron.
    That was easier said than done.  Once I recompiled sysklogd and 
installed the new binary, restarted and all that jazz, when I tried to 
start sendmail back up (with the >2 GiB file in place) I got this:

    > service sendmail start
    Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 cannot open /var/log/sm-mta: File too large


    If I'm not mistaken, those error codes are sendmail's.  *sigh*

    Now I have to write another script just to work in conjunction with 
logrotate and rotate twice a month.  At the end of the month, take both 
files and cat them together and then zip it up.  This is just stupid in 
my opinion.

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