This is a problem with the shell - effectively that file becomes a parameter of the bb command and is thus too big for sh or bash to handle.
I'm fairly new to xymon so I haven't done it myself, if you were running xymon you might be able to define "somefile" as a log file and use the xymon client to move it to the server. As you probably aren't, you could send a URL of "somefile" as part of the message so the viewer could click on it to access the file (via a web server). To do this you'd need to copy somefile to a web server as well...
hope that helps.
On 4/30/2011 at 4:11 AM, in message <BANLkTikybexniKWZtQi71iuDtXnTAHyQpw at mail.gmail.com>, Joe Acquisto <joe.acquisto at gmail.com> wrote: When trying to send a simple status message to hobbit (yes still at that level) , along the line of : /path_to_bb/bb my_hobbit_host "status+1d page.subpage green
datecat /somefile""somefile" is rather large, some 428k and I can confirm it works fine if I make "somefile" much smaller.
Is there a way around this? The idea is to have this file as a page for reference. I personally think a better solution is to use access or excel (in mswords), but . . . boss wants it this way.
joe a.