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@xxxxxxxxxx/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. ---- 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
