On Mon, 22.07.13 15:26, Robert Nichols (rnicholsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On 07/22/2013 11:36 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > I am pretty sure that most of the stuff we currently mail > >(like the log output of cron jobs) simply makes no sense as mail, and > >should much rather be treated exactly like all other log output. There's > >nothing special really about cron that would make it so much better > >suitable for sending out its logs per mail, rather then just log them. > > How many megabytes can the log system reasonably accept in a single message? > The output from a cron job can be a lot more than what anyone would > consider to be a reasonable log message. journald is in theory fine with 2^64 bytes per message. In practice (due to the CPU cost of compressing large blobs with XZ while we write it to disk) a few MB should be fine. Also, cronie will split up the messages by line anyway if it logs to syslog instead of sendmail. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
