Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Bastian Venthur said: >> And please keep in mind that this only happens when the output of a >> script is *very* large -- to large for the shell to handle -- like the >> one from xserver-xorg, for the most other packages, everything should >> work fine automatically and attaching a file is not needed. > > What does 'too large for the shell to handle' mean? Believe me, I've > worked with the shell for quite a while now, and I have never seen a > 'file too large' type error message since the bad old days when some > filesystems didn't have LFS support.
The output of /usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg/script 3>&1 is ~65K big. Calling the mua like: mua --body "$OUTPUT" ... does not work, at least not with python's command module. Trying it directly in my shell results in the output to be truncated at a certain point, so I guess there is a limit. -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
