[Fedora] Sendmail's 2GiB limit?

Craig White craig at tobyhouse.com
Tue Feb 20 22:09:41 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 13:23 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Martin Marques wrote:
> > Why on earth do you have logs that are larger then 2GiB? I logrotate 
> > working correctly?
>     We rotate ALL logs once a month, and yes it's rotating fine.  Except 
> we have enough mail traffic that surpasses that 2GiB limit.  I really 
> don't want to have to rotate it more often and end up with multiple 
> files for the same month.  All of our archives are done per month (so 
> far 1 DVD per month, though that's getting close to full.)
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I use RHEL/CentOS for servers and they rotate syslog(s) every week, not
every month. I'm surprised that Fedora would do differently than RHEL.

Craig




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