[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq isn't happy when log file reaches 2GB?

[Simon Kelley]

Wayne Sherman wrote:
> Simon Kelley wrote:
>  >>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Paul Chambers <bod at bod.org> wrote:
>  >>>> Does dnsmasq have a problem when the file it's logging to reaches two
>  >>>> gigabytes?
>  >
>  > Looks like, on Linux, we need to open the file with O_LARGEFILE. From
>  > "man 2 open":
> ...
>  > I'll add the fix.
> 
> Are you sure you want to allow log files to grow without limit?  Without 
>   some kind of notification or error message, the log file could have 
> grown to fill up the entire partition.  I think a 2 gig limit is more 
> than reasonable for a log file limit.  If it gets that big, there is 
> likely something wrong or misconfigured anyway.

It would be useful to have a limit, but keeping one which is a result of 
a bug, and only applies under Linux, and maybe only under 32-bit Linux, 
and is an arbitrary size, and which breaks dnsmasq when it's reached is 
not good.

I think that logrotate/syslogd maybe are probably better places to solve 
the problem.

Cheers

Simon.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wayne Sherman
> 
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