[Xymon] bb: Argument list too large long

[Phil Crooker]

This is a problem with the shell - effectively that file becomes a
parameter of the bb command and is thus too big for sh or bash to
handle.

I'm fairly new to xymon so I haven't done it myself, if you were
running xymon you might be able to define "somefile" as a log file and
use the xymon client to move it to the server. As you probably aren't,
you could send a URL of "somefile" as part of the message so the viewer
could click on it to access the file (via a web server). To do this
you'd need to copy somefile to a web server as well...

hope that helps.


>>> On 4/30/2011 at 4:11 AM, in message
<BANLkTikybexniKWZtQi71iuDtXnTAHyQpw at mail.gmail.com>, Joe Acquisto
<joe.acquisto at gmail.com> wrote:
> When trying to send a simple status message to hobbit (yes still at
that
> level) , along the line of : /path_to_bb/bb my_hobbit_host
"status+1d
> page.subpage green `date` `cat /somefile`"
> 
> "somefile" is rather large, some 428k and I can confirm it works fine
if I
> make "somefile" much smaller.
> 
> Is there a way around this?   The idea is to have this file as a page
for
> reference.  I personally think a better solution is to use access or
excel
> (in mswords), but . . .  boss wants it this way.
> 
> joe a.