Argument list too long

Carter Bullard carter at qosient.com
Mon Aug 25 01:35:22 EDT 2003


There isn't anything ra() can to do for this as it's a
limitation of the argv/argc strategy.  You're exceeding
the max allowable array element number for argc.

We  could put in -R option to descend into directories.

Carter



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> [mailto:owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Eric
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 7:27 PM
> To: argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: ra: Argument list too long
>
>
>
> Doh! We're rotating files every 5 minutes due to disk limitations.
>
> What variables can I modify to fix this?
>
> $ ra -r */*/argus*
> -bash: /usr/local/bin/ra: Argument list too long
>
> $ find . -type f | wc -l
> 9650
>
> Any help is appreciated!
>
> - Eric
>






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