Re: file's size too large ??

[Mark . Burgess]

This is a function of your operating system. You might need to compile a special
version (64 bit) if your OS supports it. Persumably it does since you have
such a file in the first place.

M

On 15 Mar, Guolin Cheng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  Any one know how to deal with the following problem? I tried to delete some 
> files but failed since file's size is a little too big (8GB). How to set the 
> size of files will be deleted? my configuration file is listed below:
> 
> ...
> tidy:
> 
>     any::
> 
>         /var/tmp/
>             pattern=*
>             filter=tmpSpaceTidy
>             recurse=inf
>             type=mtime
>             rmdirs=true
>             links=tidy
>             dirlinks=tidy
>             age=39
>             inform=true
> ...
> 
> filters:
> 
>    { tmpSpaceTidy
>           Type: "reg|dir|link|socket"
>           Result: "Type"
>    }
> ....
> 
> The file size is 8GB :
> 
> [root@arc198 root]# ls -alF /var/tmp/bkptr/out.1 
> -rw-r-----    1 boaz     wheel    8115952898 Feb 11 17:26 /var/tmp/bkptr/out.1
> [root@arc198 root]#
> 
>  
> Then I got an email which contents are listed below:
> 
> /alexa/etc/cron.d/cron.hourly/cfagent.sh:
> 
> cfengine:Host1: RecursiveCheck was looking at /var/tmp/bkptr/out.1 when this 
> happened:
> cfengine:Host1: lstat: Value too large for defined data type
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> --Guolin Cheng
> 
> 
> 
> 
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