Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] · Wed, 29 Aug 2001 15:39:59 +0200

  >> > 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.

Hi Maren,

I dug through the CVS repository and found out that the line length was
increased from 150 to 500 characters with revision 1.9 on 1998/08/03.

If you are using an antique version of alh (with alh.h being older than
revision 1.9) any input line will be truncated at 149 characters - this
would fit your problem, right?

In any case (especially when your version is that old) I would suggest
updating to a recent version - there's a few other bugs that have been
fixed and lots of new things added.

If your alh is recent ... phhh. I don't see any reason why alh should
cut off your command line. All internal structures support variable
length strings. The only point I could possibly think of is that your
shell (that gets started with a system() call in file process.c) has a
limit on command line length. Not very likely, but ... *shrug*.

Good luck!

Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System