Re: alarm handler confusion (and solution)

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

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.
> 
> 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?

yup. did too, ours was dated of some time in 1997. 
Found quite a few other improvements too.

Question: I put
alh -filter a -s <config file>
and it runs without beeping ok. The way I understand the documentation
the "- filter a" should make the blinking of alarms go away when
the alarms are no longer active. Am I understanding this wrong or
did I write the command line wrong? This would be nice to have
because we run several alarm handlers and it would be nice to just 
look at one screen and know if there are alarms that are still 
active.

Thanks,

Maren