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Derek Shaw wrote:

> 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.

Just a thought, and I'm not sure if I have this correct, but perhaps this is a case for using xargs?
Perhaps a command like the following would work...

find /var/home/userdir /var/home/userdir/*  -prune  -type f| xargs chattr +i

--Kurt