https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/Error-in-Splunkd-log/m-p/85718#M1940 <P>Hello, </P> <P>I am seeing the following error in splunkd.log and my search is failing for same reason:</P> <P>06-27-2012 23:20:28.135 +0100 ERROR SearchScheduler - failed to mkdir <INITIAL path="">\splunk\var\run\splunk\dispatch\scheduler_<EM>nobody_cHJvcGhlY3ktcHJlbWlzZQ_U05NUCBNZWRpYSBTZXJ2ZXIgQXZlcmFnZSBSVFAgZGVsYXlzIGdyZWF0ZXIgdGhlbiAyIHBhY2tldHMgIE9JRDoxLjMuNi4xLjQuMS4yODMzNi42MDAuMy4zNg_at_1340835600_0feb5e210e3a6a03: The filename or extension is too long.<BR /> 06-27-2012 23:20:28.148 +0100 ERROR DispatchCommand - Failed to create a directory at <INITIAL path="">\splunk\var\run\splunk\dispatch\scheduler</INITIAL></EM>_nobody_cHJvcGhlY3ktcHJlbWlzZQ_U05NUCBNZWRpYSBTZXJ2ZXIgQXZlcmFnZSBSVFAgZGVsYXlzIGdyZWF0ZXIgdGhlbiAyIHBhY2tldHMgIE9JRDoxLjMuNi4xLjQuMS4yODMzNi42MDAuMy4zNg_at_1340835600_0feb5e210e3a6a03.</INITIAL></P> <P>It is for a windows deployment and I see that with full path information total filename reaches to 281 characters and windows limit to 260 characters for filename.</P> <P>Can you please suggest how does Splunk reaches to this file name and how can we restrict the file name to less than 260 char.</P> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:00:10 GMT tkapoor 2020-09-28T12:00:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/Error-in-Splunkd-log/m-p/85718#M1940 <P>Hello, </P> <P>I am seeing the following error in splunkd.log and my search is failing for same reason:</P> <P>06-27-2012 23:20:28.135 +0100 ERROR SearchScheduler - failed to mkdir <INITIAL path="">\splunk\var\run\splunk\dispatch\scheduler_<EM>nobody_cHJvcGhlY3ktcHJlbWlzZQ_U05NUCBNZWRpYSBTZXJ2ZXIgQXZlcmFnZSBSVFAgZGVsYXlzIGdyZWF0ZXIgdGhlbiAyIHBhY2tldHMgIE9JRDoxLjMuNi4xLjQuMS4yODMzNi42MDAuMy4zNg_at_1340835600_0feb5e210e3a6a03: The filename or extension is too long.<BR /> 06-27-2012 23:20:28.148 +0100 ERROR DispatchCommand - Failed to create a directory at <INITIAL path="">\splunk\var\run\splunk\dispatch\scheduler</INITIAL></EM>_nobody_cHJvcGhlY3ktcHJlbWlzZQ_U05NUCBNZWRpYSBTZXJ2ZXIgQXZlcmFnZSBSVFAgZGVsYXlzIGdyZWF0ZXIgdGhlbiAyIHBhY2tldHMgIE9JRDoxLjMuNi4xLjQuMS4yODMzNi42MDAuMy4zNg_at_1340835600_0feb5e210e3a6a03.</INITIAL></P> <P>It is for a windows deployment and I see that with full path information total filename reaches to 281 characters and windows limit to 260 characters for filename.</P> <P>Can you please suggest how does Splunk reaches to this file name and how can we restrict the file name to less than 260 char.</P> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:00:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/Error-in-Splunkd-log/m-p/85718#M1940 tkapoor 2020-09-28T12:00:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/Error-in-Splunkd-log/m-p/85719#M1941 <P>I had this problem, but only for searches with long stanza names in savedsearches.conf. Try reducing the name of your searches to be 97 chars or less.</P> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:50:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/Error-in-Splunkd-log/m-p/85719#M1941 marcusjudge 2012-08-10T01:50:40Z