>>>>> "Rex" == Rex Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Rex> This definitely fixes the error but I'm curious why the first
Rex> version doesn't work?  Seems like a bug in gnu find or xargs to
Rex> me -- the fix is really more of a workaround.

In xargs.  One of the notes on that tree of bugzilla ids references
an email sent to one of the gnu mail lists.  The bug is that xargs'
test for the size of the env comes before the args are parsed; the
arg -s allows the env to be elarged, but xargs fails to take that
into consideration before bailing out.

The error only shows up at boot because the rc process must be
creating an env larger than 20k.  Once booted your shell has a
much smaller env.  (Mine is just under 3k.)

-JimC


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