Syslog

[Spicer, Kevin]

Don Newcomer wrote:
> First off, I'm using MailScanner 4.31.6, SpamAssassin 2.63, and Perl
> 5.8.3 on a Tru64 UNIX version 5.1B box.  I'm logging all of my
> MailScanner entries to a separate syslog file but I'm running into
> truncation problems with some of the spam reports (I'm logging all
> spam scores). Is there a maximum line length for the logging function
> in SA, the Perl module, or syslog itself?  It seems to max out at
> about 1024 for the text.  I've written a handy script that gives me
> the counts (in reverse sorted order) of hits for each rule with the
> score and the .cf file that contains the rule but I'm hitting
> problems where some rulenames are being truncated in the logs. 
> Thanks. 

I think you'll find its syslog.  Syslog uses UDP so a syslog message is limited to a single UDP message



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