Hi,
Firstly I'd like to
say nice job on cfengine. It is an excellent tool.
I'm using cfengine
2.1.20 (DAG rpm) on CentOS 4.3.
I'm trying to
install a large number of RPMS for some 3rd party apps via the 'package'
mechanism.
I'm using Yum so my
rpm install command is:
RPMInstallCommand
Dear Steve,
Thanks for that. It does appear that it's cfengine imposing the limit
way before
it gets anywhere near yum. Looking at the source the issue is in popen.c
where
it imposes the limit of CF_MAXSHELLARGS (which is set to 30). I can see
why
this is done (to limit memory/stack usage) but i
Dear Mark,
It's not a question of how big - someone will always exceed the limit :)
It's the technique employed. I appreciate you are trying to reuse
secure code
by enforcing an arbitrary limit on popen calls but the list itself is
internally constructed and therefore should be considered secure
Dear Ed,
All I can say is:
THANKS!
I may hack it around a bit but if I do that I will post it back to the
group.
Best Regards,
Brett
-Original Message-
From: Ed Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 14 July 2006 16:20
To: Brett Delle Grazie
Cc: help-cfengine@cfengine.org
Subject: Re
