On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 jtm@??? wrote:
> Does anyone know the source or how to fix whatever these
> paniclog entries proclaim?
>
> 2000-04-28 05:15:57 12l6ry-0005rf-00 string_sprintf expansion was longer than 8192
> 2000-04-28 06:19:57 12l7s6-00035L-00 string_sprintf expansion was longer than 8192
> 2000-04-28 06:46:33 12l8I0-0005e7-00 string_sprintf expansion was longer than 8192
>
> My mail relay servers have been logging this type of
> errors for about 36 hrs and I don't like them.
>
> No, we have made no changes to the configure files, etc
> (the configure timestamp is Apr 19 04:57)
> but we do make changes to changes to alias files
> everyday.
This problem has been seen in circumstances where the configuration uses
a variable such as $h_to: for some purpose. For example, a filter file
containing
if $h_to: contains .....
If a rogue message contains a To: header that is enormously long, it can
then provoke this error message. I will take a look when I get a moment,
and see if there is any improvement that can be made.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
