Re: Long file pathnames created by system

From: Bob Meyers (oregonbob2000)
Date: 07/31/04

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    "Bob Meyers" <oregonbob2000 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
    news:XuGdnbmm29ZvsZTcRVn-qg@centurytel.net...
    > 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.

    More info:

    If I

     cd /usr/lib/custom/customDBCache
     find . -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

    A clipping looks like this:

    In subdirectory named
    /usr/lib/custom/customDBCache/SCO:SupplementFLOPPY::rs50
    5a::367EB5A7... (whatever that means)

    :35BD8555/opt/K/SCO/TclX/7.3.2c/.softmgmt/rts.fl
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root billing 241 Dec 28 1999
    ./SCO:OpenServerCD::5.0.5:
    :35BD8555/opt/K/SCO/TclX/7.3.2c/.softmgmt/ClientControl.fl
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root billing 1281 Dec 28 1999
    ./SCO:OpenServerCD::5.0.5:
    :35BD8555/opt/K/SCO/WServer/5.1.3b/.softmgmt/shared.db
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root billing 711 Dec 28 1999
    ./SCO:OpenServerCD::5.0.5:
    :35BD8555/opt/K/SCO/WServer/5.1.3b/.softmgmt/SharedControl.fl
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root billing 2868 Dec 28 1999
    ./SCO:OpenServerCD::5.0.5:

    I notice files created in this directory and subdirs are either a ".db" or
    ".fl" extension. Anyone recognize that?

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