log file getting too big
KORN Andras
korn-birdusers at elan.rulez.org
Wed Nov 18 10:58:55 CET 2009
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:45:21AM +0000, David J Craigon wrote:
Hi,
> A bug report / feature request.
>
> 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.
As a workaround to this and similar problems, it might be a good idea to run
bird (and anything else that writes a log) under runit, logging to stdout,
and saving the logs to disk using svlogd, which can rotate the logs when
they reach a certain size or age.
Andras
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