[Xymon] bb: Argument list too large long

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 date cat /somefile"

"somefile" is rather large, some 428k and I can confirm it works fine if I make "somefile" much smaller.

Sounds like a shell limitation on the commandline length.

Use the '@' and feed the input to "bb" via stdin instead of the commandline. Like this:

(echo "status+1d page.subpage green date"; cat somefile) |
$BB $BBDISP "@"

Or if you're using the 4.3.x version of the "xymon" utility:

cat somefile |
xymon --merge my_xymon_server "status+1d page.subpage green date"

Regards, Henrik