On Wednesday 12 November 2003 11:18 pm, px wrote: > Hi, me and a buddy of mine are working on a perl script to automate > blocking of about 3000 IP addresses. > The script works fine on his box, x86. But on my box, sparc, I seem to > have a limitation of 854 rules before I start to get errors and am > unable to add anymore rules. Tell us more about both machines - especially how much memory they each have. Antony. -- If books were designed by Microsoft, the Anarchist's Cookbook would explode when you read it. - Mark W Schumann Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.