Bug#406796: xargs: should use safe defaults qua length/size of argument list

2007-01-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2007-01-14 Lionel Elie Mamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: findutils mailman was using the following snippet of code: find /var/lib/mailman/ -type d -print0 | xargs -r -0 chmod g+s but this led, for at least one user, to a failure with the error message: xargs: chmod: Argument

Bug#406796: xargs: should use safe defaults qua length/size of argument list

2007-01-14 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:16:39AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2007-01-14 Lionel Elie Mamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mailman was using the following snippet of code: find /var/lib/mailman/ -type d -print0 | xargs -r -0 chmod g+s but this led, for at least one user, to a failure with

Bug#406796: xargs: should use safe defaults qua length/size of argument list

2007-01-13 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Package: findutils mailman was using the following snippet of code: find /var/lib/mailman/ -type d -print0 | xargs -r -0 chmod g+s but this led, for at least one user, to a failure with the error message: xargs: chmod: Argument list too long (see http://bugs.debian.org/366102). We have