Re: {bb} Sub Pages and Data Truncation

[Sean MacGuire <sean@bb4.com>]

graham.lillico@gecm.com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a few questions and I was wondering if anyone has the answer.
> 
> 1: I have grouped my server into two catagories (i.e. Unix and NT) whoever is
> it possible to add new groups under unix for say different types etc. so I
> would end up with something similar to the hirearchy shown below?
> 
>                 bb.html
>                         unix.html
>                                 Solaris.html
>                                 Aix.html
>                                 SunOS.html

No.  One level of pages is all we support at the moment...

> 2: I have also noticed that on a couple of my servers that the disk info has
> been truncated, is there anyway I can stop the truncation from happening?

There is a hardcoded limit (MAXBUF) in bb.h that is used to
roughly determine the max message size.  As shipped it's 4K.

That serves 2 purposes:
1.	Reduces network traffic somewhat
2.	Prevents a nasty DoS attack where someone opens a connection and
	fills your disk.
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