[Fedora] Sendmail's 2GiB limit?
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Feb 21 03:33:26 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 20:05 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> 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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a script samurai would welcome the challenge.
Come to think of it, I don't recall ever seeing savvy administrators whining over a new scripting challenge, especially something that is this easy.
Craig
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