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Subject: Re: syslog(3) and truncated messages.
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On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 23:00 +0100, Edward Tomasz Napiera=B3a wrote:
> I have a daemon (namely ctld(8)) that, when running with debug enabled,
> outputs a lot of information to the syslog, using the usual syslog(3) A=
PI.
> Problem is, the output gets truncated: at some point the log messages
> from all involved processes stop getting logged, even though the proces=
ses
> continue to run, confirmed by subsequent kernel messages, which get log=
ged
> properly.
>=20
> Any idea what might be going on?
>=20

It turns out I had newer patches that did apply cleanly for this, so I
committed them as r258076 and r258077 (since they really addressed two
completely separate items).

Hopefully this will fix the glitches you're seeing.

-- Ian