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I recently had an oops on a host, and after getting it working, a previously working 
commnand (chattr), run from cron is now returning "Arg list too long".  From poring thru past postings
with Deja-news, it seems most likely that it is something to do with the environment size.

can anyone tell me where (if) the environment size is set?  Or any other information about this?
BASH_VERSION=1.14.7(1)

I have a kludge working where I use find to process each file, and then execute the chattr command, but I would
much rather use the format:

  chattr +i /var/home/userdir/*

Another clue: if I run the command with a relative path it works fine:
eg:
   cd /
   chattr +i var/home/userdir/*
works, while
   chattr +i /var/home/userdir/*
fails (returns "Arg list too long").

Any clues appreciated!

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Derek Shaw
Business Information Systems Victoria, BC.