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jstuer
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Default Syslog size

I enabled sysloging on my esxi 4.1  server and expected the log to rotate at 200KB, according to KB1016621.  When do the logs rotate?  I used the GUI to configure.

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jstuer
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log rolled at 1027KB

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Dave_Mishchenko
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That's the correct value.  The file contains the below command:

#!/bin/sh
# Copyright (c) 2008 VMware, Inc.

# Start syslogd in "init" mode, which buffers output until we have the
# config file and potential log storage loations set-up.  The sighup
# in 94.syslogd triggers the dump of the buffered logs.
Exec syslogd -i -s 1024 -b 8 -S

Exec vmklogger -d

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