log file getting too big

Eugene Perevyazko john at dnepro.net
Wed Nov 18 13:36:58 CET 2009


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:45:21AM +0000, David J Craigon wrote:

> I'm using the log "" command to log to a file.
> 
> 1) The file seems to have a 2Gb limit on file size.
> 2) When the file gets to 2Gb, bird crashes.
> 
> Can you make 1) use the large file things so it can be bigger than 2Gb, and
> can I suggest that 2) is not the right answer- the log file not being
> available seems like a really bad reason to bring down the entire network.

Using and debugging bird on FreeBSD I've got logs over 2GB several times and
never was it crashing because of these. Are you sure it's not a filesystem
where your log reside issue?

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Eugene Perevyazko



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