BBALPHAMSG size

[Asif Iqbal]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How do I increase the BBALPHAMSG on hobbit 4.2.2 ?
>>
>> I see there is a patch from Henrik for hobbit 4.2.0 in this email from Jan 2008
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>> http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/01/msg00015.html
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>> Should I be able to apply the same patch to 4.2.2 ?
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> Still need help with this.
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> Is there a patch to add BBALPHAMSG as an environment variable? That
> way I can just modify it in hobbitserver.cfg file and restart hobbit.
>
>>

according to xymon 4.2.2 changelog that patch is already applied

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r6011 | storner | 2008-12-01 22:10:40 +0100 (Mon, 01 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
   M /branches/4.2.2/hobbitd/do_alert.c

Limit size of alert status-texts sent to a script to 4 KB.
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/01/msg00015.html

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So it looks like the patch is what causing the limit on BBALPHAMSG, doh!

Instead of modifying the Makefile for MAXALERTMSGSZ to a higher value
can there be a BBALPHAMSG env variable introduced ?

Henrik ?



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Asif Iqbal
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?