[Fedora] Sendmail's 2GiB limit?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Feb 20 23:12:26 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Craig White wrote:
>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.)
>
>----
>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

They don't, its weekly.  I think he has been playing with his scripts.

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