[Esd-l] Running Sanitizer 1.133 on AIX 4.3.3.0 w/Procmail 3.22 and Perl 5.6.1

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Tue Apr 16 06:49:05 PDT 2002


On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Floyd Pierce wrote:

> I'm actually running 1.32 so I haven't hit this, but AIX has a
> limit on the size of the command line and environment that is
> lower than many *nix'es. That's what you are faced with here.

I don't think we've hit that limit in 1.133

> The perl -e line is exceeding this limit.

Is that the error message we were getting? Or was it just mysteriously
screwing up mails?

> otherwise the only known solution is to break up the offending
> line and have a portion read by perl from a file.

For troubleshooting you could also try the nomacroscan version of
1.133 and see if it behaves differently.

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