Re: Long file pathnames created by system

From: Bob Meyers (oregonbob2000)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:53:27 -0700

"D. Thomas Podnar" <tom@microlite.com> wrote in message
news:XNuOc.40$nc5.48192@news.uswest.net...
> 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.
> >
> >
> Hmm. The longest path we have in that folder on our
> very-long-running 5.0.5 system is 143 characters.
>
> In any event, how old is your BackupEDGE?

One system is 5.0.5 with Edge 01.01.07. But even if Edge fails on long
names, I wonder what and why a process is creating them.