From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 23 14:54:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239F837B41B for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 14:54:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([12.231.115.57]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020323225423.VHPG2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@mac.com> for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:54:23 +0000 Message-ID: <3C9D079D.4090207@mac.com> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 14:54:21 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020209 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: problems rebuilding locate database References: <3C9CEDC8.4070001@mac.com> <041f01c1d2b2$bce32920$0900a8c0@max> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Nielsen wrote: > > I would guess that it means you have pathnames on your system that are > longer than the (max allowed) of 1024. i.e. > "/usr/foo/...1020chars.../bar/baz" > > If that's the case then you can solve it by moving the offending files to > a not-so-nested directory. Or you could try to increase the value of > MAXPATHLEN, but I'm not sure where that's defined or what would break if > it changed. well, I don't know where it's set either. Looks like the first thing I need to do is find the offending files. -- Paul Beard 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 206 529 8400 Good day to let down old friends who need help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message