From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 21 01:45:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA29382 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 01:45:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from citadel.cdsec.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA29372 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 01:45:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gram@cdsec.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id LAA02813; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:30:59 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 2753; Mon Dec 21 11:30:28 1998 From: Graham Wheeler Message-Id: <199812210938.LAA17923@cdsec.com> Subject: Re: inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. To: kaleb@ics.com (Kaleb Keithley) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:38:00 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199812191330.IAA26067@sunoco> from "Kaleb Keithley" at Dec 19, 98 08:30:13 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25-h4.1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > My 3.0-RELEASE system, up some 17 days, is now doing this when I telnet > (or ping, or anything else that uses inetd) to it. (I don't know how long > it's been like this, perhaps it explains why my outgoing email seem to > be being dropped on the floor. > > Do I remember correctly that there was some fix for this made shortly > before 3.0-RELEASE? Did the fix not make it into 3.0-RELEASE? Before > I go snag the LaG inetd sources, will that fix the problem? There is an open problem report, bin/8183, about this. I have just received mail saying that the fix I posted changes the signal mask for child processes and breaks Amanda; I haven't had a chance to look at this yet, and have not experienced any problems myself. You may want to try the patches and see how it goes. cheers Graham -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cdsec.com Citadel Data Security Phone: +27(21)423-6065/6/7 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Internet/Intranet Network Specialists Data Security Products WWW: http://www.cdsec.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message