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Re: File size limit exceeded



On Sat, 30 May 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

In <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.64.0905301440120.29670@calypso.view.net.au>, Miguel Obliviemo
wrote:
apt-get remove postfix:
Processing triggers for man-db ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst: line 3:  6289 File size limit
  exceededperl -e '@pwd = getpwnam("man"); $( = $) = $pwd[3]; $< = $>
  = $pwd[2];
             exec "/usr/bin/mandb", @ARGV' -- "$@"
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly

How big is /etc/passwd?

Tiny.  It's a personal system.

Do you have any manpages (I think /usr/share/man contains most of them) that
are overly large?


The largest is of fvwm2 at 120k.

du -sk says

124	cs
328	de
172	es
36	fi
888	fr
28	fr.ISO8859-1
28	fr.UTF-8
12	gl
60	hu
24	id
236	it
28	it.ISO8859-1
28	it.UTF-8
352	ja
60	ko
6644	man1
8	man2
7736	man3
304	man4
1336	man5
148	man6
568	man7
2056	man8
10408	man9
32	nl
312	pl
28	pl.ISO8859-2
28	pl.UTF-8
48	pt
72	pt_BR
340	ru
20	sk
268	sv
72	tr
40	vi
64	zh_CN
64	zh_TW


--
Miguel


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