Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Maren Purves <[email protected]> · Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:03:21 -1000

Hi Ralph,

what I found wasn't what you describe ...

[email protected] wrote:
> 
>   > It appears that the cut-off in the addressing is not in the mail
>   > forwarding but in the alarm handler reading its configuration file.
>   > What is the limit on the line length in alarm handler config files?
> 
> Oops,
> 
> the config file line length is limited by a buffer which is of length
> MAX_STRING_LENGTH, i.e. 500 (defined in alh.h).

the line length was definitely below 200 characters at all times.
I don't know whether I exceeded 2 lines (wrapped) at some point in 
time.

> It never appeared to me that this might be too short, but it obviously
> is.

500 characters would have been  more than enough :-)
> 
> If I understand correctly, the ... exceptional length of your config
> file lines is due to listing multiple mail addresses.

Umm, no. I have one or the other that has an actual email address
or two in it, ones that I know won't change too soon (e.g. the ones 
that go to me only). Having mutiple email addresses would require
restarting the alarm handler(s) each time you want to add a person
or take a person off.

works like this:
$SEVRCOMMAND UP_MAJOR echo "Michelle CCC 2nd stage exceeds 20K" |
/usr/ucb/mail -s "Michelle CCC 2nd stage temp. exceeds 20K"
maren-michelle

(maren-michelle is a forwarding list - the above is of course one line)

If the above line would be about 40 characters longer it would
get cut off.

Aloha,

Maren

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System