Basically, I maintain a mediaWiki setup on my Linode 360.
For whatever reason, when I run a script with: php (scriptName) (Options)
I get this, and wondered what it meant?
Thanks very much for any help!

The error I am getting (and trying to fix or get to go completely away if at all possible, is thus:

ALERT - script tried to increase memory_limit to 4294967295 bytes which is above the allowed value (attacker 'REMOTE_ADDR not set', file '/srv/www/keithnet.us/
public_html/wiki/maintenance/commandLine.inc', line 238)


How do I fix that? Thanks!

Searching around for that error message seems to point the finger at Suhosin. See the last entry in that thread for a possible fix.

Errm, also that's a PHP script trying to raise its memory limit to 4GB? No PHP script should ever use that much...

While Suhoshin is setting the limit, it is correct in saying that a PHP script requesting 4GB of RAM (the default limit in PHP is 16MB) is insane and should be stopped.

Looking at the MediaWiki code, I believe the script is trying to remove the memory limit:

ini_set( 'memory_limit', -1 );

I don't know if suhosin.memory_limit can similarly be set to -1 or if you need to pick a defined value.

That is a supremely bad idea. The limits exist for a reason. I'd suggest changing the MediaWiki code to not make such a dangerous error. It's a one-line fix; just put a reasonable value in the line of code in question.