[hobbit] Alert Script page.log contains many: Argument list too long

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:46:55PM -0400, s_aiello at comcast.net 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


Regards,
Henrik