I have an application that fields inbound mail from Postfix and processes it into a database. It also spools a copy into a log file in the user's home directory - the .forward file for the user that the mail comes in for is...

"| tee -a /home/weblink/mail.log | /usr/local/bin/weblink_mpa localhost"

The problem is that the mail.log file is hitting a limit at 50M (51200000 to be precise), and no more is added to it. Where is this limit set, and how do I change it?

This is Redhat AES 3 and postfix-2.0.16-14.RHEL3.

Thanks for listening!

Greg.

Linux version 2.4.21-27.0.1.ELsmp (bhcompile@bugs.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-47)) #1 SMP Mon Dec 20 18:47:45 EST 2004

I haven't used it, but it probably has something to do with disk quotas. Perhaps you could use "quotacheck".

-- the dudeman

Running quota as the user shows:

Disk quotas for user weblink(uid 500): none

I did some more research, and found out about ulimit. It shows:

ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 4
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 7168
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited

So neither of these show a 50M limit. Any more ideas?

Thanks!

Greg.

Hello,

maybe something to do with "logrotate" or "syslog" config...

Oliv'

My advice would be, set this up for log rotation so the file doesn't even get that big in the first place. Trying to deal with files that large or even larger become useless to you at times, especially log files.

And what is this so-called application that spools the log file into the users home directory? I would think since your kernel and system have no file limits, it would be this application. Postfix as far as I know would not do this by default either.