sudo - fatal flex scanner internal error

[David B. Neal]

Does anyone know what causes the following error when entering a sudo command?
"fatal flex scanner internal error--end of buffer missed"
The /etc/sudoers file is quite large and shared by multiple systems.
Thanks.
David.

[Steve Steel]

Hi


See

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~hpb/Man/_Man_Gnu_html/html1/flexdoc.1.html

http://www.sudo.ws/pipermail/sudo-users/2000-October/000413.html

This is a third party software but I suspect you have not enough swap or your maxdsiz is small


check the message in google


Steve Steel

[Cheryl Griffin]

There are several documents from this search that hint at this error being a DNS/nslookup problem.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&q=%22fatal+flex+scanner+internal+error--end+of+buffer+missed%22

I'd contact the author of sudo and see if there is some known issue with how sudo handles name resolution.

[David B. Neal]

sudoers file was is shared with AIX systems that has syntax not compatable with HP's sudo.