[1594] in Release_Engineering
newsyslog.conf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Thu Sep 7 04:15:45 1989
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 89 04:15:31 -0400
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I proposed an addition to /etc/athena/newsyslog.conf, which you were
nice enough to put in the release. There's only one problem. It
needs to be changed.
The line is:
/site/rvd/rvdlog 644 7 * 24
It seems that it really *is* possible to have an rvdlog file grow
enough in one day to overflow the /site partition. (Even when that
partition is 27 Meg.)
I propose that we never again put an entry in newsyslog.conf with no
limit on logfile size. (The current line for rvdlog turns the file
over every 24 hours, but doesn't pay attention to the file size.)
Please modify the line in /etc/athena/newsyslog.conf for the next
release to read:
The line is:
/site/rvd/rvdlog 644 7 50 24
Thanks.
