syslog messages truncated

[Hamish Moffatt]

Hi,

I've just installed busybox 1.4.2 on an embedded ARM system using uclibc
0.9.28.3. (I'll try 1.5.0 next but the web site warns it may not be
stable yet.)

syslog messages are being truncated. This happens regardless of their
source (klogd, logger, other programs), with the exception of syslogd's
own internal messages. For example:

hostname# cat /var/log/messages
Jan  1 00:00:04 hostname syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.4.2
Jan  1 00:00:04 hostname user.warn kernel: ixp
Jan  1 00:00:04 hostname user.debug kernel: ixp
Jan  1 00:00:04 hostname user.info kernel: ixp
Jan  1 00:00:04 hostname user.info kernel: ixp
Jan  1 00:00:05 hostname user.warn kernel: [er
Jan  1 00:00:05 hostname user.warn kernel: [er
Jan  1 00:00:06 hostname user.info kernel: ixp
Jan  1 00:00:06 hostname user.warn kernel: Ini
Jan  1 00:00:06 hostname user.warn kernel: ixp
Jan  1 00:00:06 hostname user.warn kernel: ixp
Jan  1 00:00:07 hostname daemon.info init: Start
Jan  1 00:00:09 hostname user.warn kernel: ixp
Jan  1 00:01:58 hostname auth.info login[678]:
Jan  1 00:20:04 hostname syslog.info -- MARK --
Jan  1 00:40:04 hostname syslog.info -- MARK --
Jan  1 01:00:04 hostname syslog.info -- MARK --
Jan  1 01:20:04 hostname syslog.info -- MARK --
Jan  1 01:40:04 hostname syslog.info -- MARK --
Jan  1 02:00:04 hostname syslog.info -- MARK --
Jan  1 02:20:04 hostname syslog.info -- MARK --
Jan  1 02:28:21 hostname auth.info login[682]:
hostname# logger "abcdefghij"
hostname# tail -2 /var/log/messages
Jan  1 02:28:21 hostname auth.info login[682]:
Jan  1 02:28:43 hostname user.notice root: abcde

I couldn't find any hits for this on Google. Is it a known problem?


Thanks,
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>