This is CentOS 5.4. uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-164.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 04:47:32 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux The filesystem is ext3. SELinux is disabled. Your right, I clearly need some log rotation, but I started this email chain as a suggestion for improvement, but it looks like it's my box rather than a Bird fault. David 2009/11/18 Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org>
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:44:32PM +0000, David J Craigon wrote:
It might well be a problem on my end. Any suggestions are welcome.
It's not the file system:
[root@localhost 5731]# ls -sh /tmp/ total 5.9G 3.9G bigfile 0 birdlogtmp 2.1G look
where the file "look" is what was the bird log file. Bird stopped when the file became 2.1 Gb. As you can see, I can make bigger files
I've got bird to create a core dump, which I can include if you really want, but sticking it in gdb tells me the following:
[root@localhost ~]# gdb /usr/sbin/bird core.4934
Program terminated with signal 25, File size limit exceeded. [New process 4934]
The whole signal 25 thing suggests it is coming from outside, but if so, what?
That makes it clear why BIRD crashed - it received unhandled signal and a crash is a default behavior for that signal.
But it is strange that sug signal was sent when it is possible to have bigger files on that FS. What FS is used for /tmp ? What kernel version is used?
BTW, i would suggest to use some smart syslog variant and use syslog-based log rotation.
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