"Bob Meyers" <oregonbob2000 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:XuGdnbmm29ZvsZTcRVn-qg@centurytel.net...
> I am starting to see "maximum pathname length exceeded", during backups,
on
> a number of completely unrelated SCO OS5 systems. They all have the
> directory tree "/usr/lib/custom/customDBCache/" in cmmon. Is anyone else
> seeing this? What's weird is none of these systems have had any system or
> software changes in years, so it must be something the OS is doing.

More info:

If I

cd /usr/lib/custom/customDBCache
find . -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

A clipping looks like this:

In subdirectory named
/usr/lib/custom/customDBCache/SCO:SupplementFLOPPY::rs50
5a::367EB5A7... (whatever that means)

:35BD8555/opt/K/SCO/TclX/7.3.2c/.softmgmt/rts.fl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root billing 241 Dec 28 1999
../SCO:OpenServerCD::5.0.5:
:35BD8555/opt/K/SCO/TclX/7.3.2c/.softmgmt/ClientControl.fl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root billing 1281 Dec 28 1999
../SCO:OpenServerCD::5.0.5:
:35BD8555/opt/K/SCO/WServer/5.1.3b/.softmgmt/shared.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root billing 711 Dec 28 1999
../SCO:OpenServerCD::5.0.5:
:35BD8555/opt/K/SCO/WServer/5.1.3b/.softmgmt/SharedControl.fl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root billing 2868 Dec 28 1999
../SCO:OpenServerCD::5.0.5:

I notice files created in this directory and subdirs are either a ".db" or
".fl" extension. Anyone recognize that?