-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:03:41PM -0600, Jason R. Mastaler wrote: >Bryan Childs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I tried pruning the pending directory (and responses) manually with >> a blanket "rm -f *" only to be told "rm: too many arguments" > >Sounds like the load broke something in your operating system, not in >TMDA.
That's just rm complaining, not the OS. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/bigdir $ echo * | wc -w 33327 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/bigdir $ rm * bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long Note that I tried this test with "only" 10000 files, and rm ate them. There's no problem with 'echo' because it's built into the shell. You can do the 'rm *' in spite of rm's limit this way: echo * | xargs rm - -- Kyle Hasselbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+5iXh10sofiqUxIQRAlImAKDDcGgiScbQiXh174dq08lj+FfAJwCfRODO KnQcq0WyA1Iz6EVxqzRgd2k= =Qm30 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
