On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
Hello All,
I was implementing a new alert script. After doing so I was checking my
logs to make sure all was well. I noticed the server/logs/page.log had
many: "Could not launch paging script /hobbit/script.sh: Argument list
too long".
[...]
there's a lot more to it than that, but the point is that there is a
128K buffer which is the only thing "held" from the parent process to
the child. the "Argument list too long" error message is actually the
kernel's E2BIG error code, returned when the execve() is not able to
fit the supplied argument list and environment into the 128K buffer.
This was discussed recently. See
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/01/msg00015.html
Ha... Maybe if I used the correct google parameters I would of seen that
article. To search the archives I used:
"Argument list too long" site:hobbitmon.com
I should of been using:
"Argument list too long" site:hswn.dk
And I had been so proud of myself in digging into that issue. Sorry for
flooding the list with such a long winded email ;)
~Steve