On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:22:59AM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > Am Montag, 20. März 2006 19:19 schrieb Ralf S. Engelschall: > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > > [...] > > > Ralf: Can you confirm that fsl 1.6.1 does not have large file support and > > > will barf on >2Gibibyte logfiles? > > > > OSSP fsl uses OSSP l2 and yes, OSSP l2 still doesn't have "large file" > > support. > > > > OTOH 2GB for a single logfile is really a lot, especially if log > > rotations are in place. I actually would expect that the log rotation > > parameters are reconfigured via rc.conf to log earlier (so the logfiles > > doesn't grow to such dramatic sizes). > > The log file grew to this size because of other bad conditions that produced > very long logfile entries. The number of processes had been limited and > a script made many connections to timsieved. Cyrus logged a lot to say that it > cannot create new processes. So any faster restart time would not have helped > in this particular case. > > After this, Cyrus refused to start because of the huge logfile size. > > But thinking about this: > shtool rotate does not seem to have a parameter to limit the upper size > of a logfile. Adding a check there or within fsl probably will be more work > then adding large file support to l2 and fsl.
Hi, Why don't you just use multilog from daemontools? I use openpkg for apache + openldap, and use either log to stdout/stderr or simply push the log through a fifo and into multilog. That way, it auto-rotates logs and gives them unique filenames (timestamp). Those unique file names means that a good backup system will keep them for a very long time. http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html -- adam ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
