From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 25 05:07:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA17365 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 05:07:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA17356 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 05:07:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA14935; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 05:05:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804251205.FAA14935@implode.root.com> To: geoffr@globalserve.net cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is signal 11? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 25 Apr 1998 04:03:56 EDT." <354198EC.EFB2A79B@globalserve.net> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 05:05:59 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I've been looking at my /var/log/messages log and I keep seeing these >same entries over and over again: > >Apr 23 06:03:28 datais /kernel: pid 17994 (checkc.cgi), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 >Apr 23 06:15:21 datais /kernel: pid 20978 (checkc.cgi), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 >Apr 23 06:15:58 datais /kernel: pid 21125 (checkc.cgi), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 > >What is signal 11 and dose it indicate a problem with the CGI >program checkc.cgi? I'm running FBSD 2.2.5R. A signal 11 is a "Segmentation Violation", which for x86 is actually a reference to unmapped virtual memory - or in other words, an unresolvable page fault. The most common cause is a programming error involving a bad pointer dereference. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message