Trying to upload log

[Brad Knowles]

At 8:23 AM -0700 2006-01-06, Danita Zanre wrote:

>>  As explained on http://logreport.org/lire/or/email.php (section 2),
>>  they should be mailed as a regular mime attachment. Gzip compression
>>  is supported, but you should *not* wrap them inside a tar ball or
>>  similar. Could this explain your problems?
>
>  My guess is that it is size.  Yesterdays' gzipped log was 9.5 MB - today's
>  is 16!

	We get well over 2GB of logs in a day.  We have to break our logs 
twice a day to keep them somewhat below the 2GB file size limitation. 
After compression with bzip2, they are about 10% of the size of the 
originals (typical bzip2 performance), but that's still pretty bloody 
big.

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