Re: log file size

["George A. Theall" <theall@tenablesecurity.com>]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:56:02PM +0000, Tim Rupp wrote:

> This may or may not be a filesystem question, but using ext3 and the
> nessus 2.x series, Nessus apparently cant handle log files greater than
> 2 gig?

It's probably a limitation of Nessus itself. I believe recent versions
of Nessus 2.x can be built with largefile support (make sure O_LARGEFILE
is defined when building it), but unless you really want large files,
you are probably better off setting up your logfiles so they are rotated
when they reach a certain size.

Two other points:

1) Starting with version 2.2.5, Nessus will automatically rotate
nessusd.messages when it starts if the file is too big.

2) You also might want to verify that "ulimit -f" on your Nessus host
reports either "unlimited" or something greater than 2 GB for the file
size limit.


George
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