So looking things over, the reason it doesn't support multiple inputs is due to a architectural decision, mostly lifting conf-file parsing from many of the other FreeIPMI tools.
Perhaps not the prettiest, but I think the simplest fix is to increase the max size listed below. Could you give it a try? If you need a patch I can provide one for you. Al On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 13:22 -0800, Albert Chu wrote: > On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 11:45 -0800, Kilian Cavalotti wrote: > > Hi Albert, > > > > Thanks for your lightning-fast reply. > > > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Albert Chu <ch...@llnl.gov> wrote: > > > I'm a little surprised you got that error. I'll see if I can reproduce > > > on my end and see what I can come up with. Specifying on multiple lines > > > seems like something that can be done too. > > > > That would be awesome. > > > > > I assume you're listing a very large list of hosts with comma > > > separation? In your environment are you not able to list via range > > > format? i.e. node[0-21]? > > > > I actually use the range format, like this: > > hostname = > > ipmi-sh-22-[1-36],ipmi-sh-23-[1-36],ipmi-sh-24-[1-36],ipmi-sh-8-[1-37] > > > > It looks like the limit may be at 512 characters. > > Looking at the conf file parsing lib (common/miscutil/conffile.h) > > /* LENGTHS > > > * > > > * The following are the maximum values and lengths throughout > > > * the conffile parser. > > > */ > > #define CONFFILE_MAX_LINELEN 32778 > #define CONFFILE_MAX_OPTIONNAMELEN 256 > #define CONFFILE_MAX_ARGS 64 > #define CONFFILE_MAX_ARGLEN 512 > #define CONFFILE_MAX_ERRMSGLEN 1024 > > A jump from 512 to 1024 would probably fix this. You could try this as > a quick fix and recompile. > > Al > > > Cheers, _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
