[Esa-l]Re: Version 1.129

[Michael Ghens]

I think this can also apply to Solaris! I have been wondering about the
line too long error.

On Sat, 12 May 2001, Floyd Pierce wrote:

> Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 06:56:08 -0500
> From: Floyd Pierce <floydp at boxusa.com>
> To: esa-l at spconnect.com
> Subject: RE: [Esa-l]Re: Version 1.129
>
> John, I'm pretty sure he's right about this. It appears that in AIX
> the _SC_ARG_MAX is about 24,000 bytes. So, environment + command
> line for an exec cannot exceed that number. This limit is applied
> to exec() system calls. I believe that there are several other
> Boxen that are near that number, so you may be at a threshold
> of breaking on a bunch of systems.
>
> The line appears to be about 25 or 26 thousand bytes long not
> counting environment.
>
> Any ideas of where we can go from here?
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: esa-l-admin at spconnect.com [mailto:esa-l-admin at spconnect.com]On
> > Behalf Of Andy Feldt
> > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 5:05 PM
> > To: esa-l at spconnect.com
> > Subject: [Esa-l]Re: Version 1.129
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Floyd Pierce wrote:
> >
> > > It seems that 1.129 sends verbose output to the log file no matter
> > > what the procmailrc says. Unless of course I screwed it up!
> > >
> > > Anyone else have this?
> >
> > I saw the same thing on my AIX 4.3.3 system (just the recipe for
> > 'Sanitizing MIME attachment headers' failed) and traced it down to
> > the ksh in AIX not allowing a command line as long as the Perl
> > script for that recipe.
> >
> > I fixed it by crudely hacking the procmailrc file to have
> > an additional environment variable:
> >
> >  SANITIZE_MIME=/etc/procmail/san-mime
> > Andy Feldt
> > Senior System Support Programmer
> > Adjunct Assistant Professor
> > Department of Physics and Astronomy
> > The University of Oklahoma
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