rsyslog $FileGroup config directive fails for groups larger than a certain size

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Issue

  1. Create a large group with tons of users

  2. Use rsyslog's $FileGroup config directive to make a log file be created with that group as the owner

  3. If the group is larger than a certain size, rsyslogd will fail to resolve the group and thus the file will be created with root as the group owner

  4. A message will be printed to the system log, e.g.:

    Nov 12 15:46:56 dhcp153-77 rsyslogd-3003: ID for group 'biggroup' could not be found or error [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/3003 ]
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
    • rsyslog version 3

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