Re: alarm handler confusion (and solution)

[Maren Purves <m.purves@jach.hawaii.edu>]

Hi Ralph,

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

Ralph.Lange@mail.bessy.de 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