From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 22:45:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA13198 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 22:45:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from s4.elec.uq.edu.au (clary@s4.elec.uq.edu.au [130.102.96.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA13142 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 22:44:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from clary@localhost) by s4.elec.uq.edu.au (8.7.1/8.6.12) id QAA29974 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 16:42:25 +1000 (EST) From: Clary Harridge Message-Id: <199604020642.QAA29974@s4.elec.uq.edu.au> Subject: /etc/group entry overflow problem To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 16:42:24 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi on FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE (SPC) #0: Thu Feb 1 11:13:35 EST 1996 I am having trouble with my entries in /etc/group I have 3 group entries with a large number of users in each group Once the group line exceeds 1024 chars things go wrong `ls' can't determine a users group `lpr' fails when I try to use the printcap `rg' field The lpr routines seem to use BUFSIZ = 1024 from I am not sure what `ls' is using to look in /etc/group My query is :- Is there some central place where I can increase this limit, to say 4096 chars, so that all utilities that want to access /etc/group will be aware of the new limit? -- regards Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Clary Harridge University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4072 Phone: +61-7-3365-3636 Fax: +61-7-3365-4999 INTERNET: clary@elec.uq.edu.au