Re: Long file pathnames created by system

From: Bob Stockler (bob_at_trebor.iglou.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: 29 Jul 2004 13:39:55 -0400

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:59:26AM -0700, Bob Meyers wrote:
| I am starting to see "maximum pathname length exceeded", during backups, on
| a number of completely unrelated SCO OS5 systems. They all have the
| directory tree "/usr/lib/custom/customDBCache/" in cmmon. Is anyone else
| seeing this? What's weird is none of these systems have had any system or
| software changes in years, so it must be something the OS is doing.

You don't say what you're using to backup, but tar sends
an error message and will not back up files that are
greater than 17 levels of nesting.

  cd / ; find . -name "*" -o -name ".*" |
  awk -F / '{ x = split($0,y) ; if ( x > 17 ) print x, $0 }'

You might try the above command to see any that might come
into the "too deep" category.

Bob 

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