FYI : Side effect of increasing ULIMIT in /usr/lib/cron/logchecker

[Jim Smithson]

I have seen a few articles about increasing the UNIX ulimit (maximum file size)
and people have correctly given the correct procedure to up the ulimit.
However there is one side effect of this that must be noted. The root cron job
which rolls over the cron log file uses the `ulimit` command to determine the
maximum size of the log file. So if you up the ulimit for the entire system you
will end up with HUGE cron log and olog files. I suggest you make changes to
the shell code in /usr/lib/cron/logchecker as below if you up the ulimit.

# set the high-water mark of the file
MARKER=4
#LIMIT=`ulimit`
LIMIT=250	#  change for ulimit increase
LIMIT=`expr $LIMIT - $MARKER`


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