log file getting too big

[David J Craigon]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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.
>
> --
> Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
>
> Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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> "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
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