4.56.7: "max message size is '40000'"

[Nick Smith]

On 10/2/06, Jeff A. Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu> wrote:
> Julian,
>
> Ok, I hang my head in shame and say that I didn't beta-test
> earlier versions of 4.56.  September was a busy month.
>
> I just upgraded from 4.55.10 to 4.56.7 on my setup (Solaris 10,
> SA 3.1.5, sophos and clam, dcc 1.3.40).  I ran it first in debug
> mode to see what would happen (output attached).  Not much.
>
> Then I attempted to fire up 4.56.7 in normal mode.  I got zero syslog
> output, and nothing seemed to happen except several MS processes
> were sucking up CPU time:
>
> # ps -ef | grep perl
>      root 15405 15337   0 11:55:16 ?           0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
>      root 15394 15336   2 11:55:14 ?           0:02 /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
>      root 15407 19023   0 11:55:16 pts/2       0:00 grep perl
>      root 15336     1   0 11:55:03 ?           0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
>      root 15337 15336   3 11:55:03 ?           0:08 /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
>
> I did go from version 0.13 to 0.18 of Sys-Syslog, but this does
> not seem to have anything to do with this.  4.55.10 works fine with
> the new Sys-Syslog.
>
> So, 4.56.7 never gets off the ground.  Any ideas?  Any other Solaris 10
> users with this issue?
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
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Are you running syslogd with remote mode (ie UDP) enabled?

I had to comment out LOG_FROM_REMOTE=NO in /etc/default/syslogd and
restart syslogd before it would work - otherwise I saw the same
behaviour you describe

Cheers

Nick