From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 17 17:16:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14547 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 17:16:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14499 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 17:16:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00442; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:16:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199803180116.UAA00442@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Memory leak in inetd in last week's -current? In-Reply-To: <19980318084414.07315@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Mar 18, 98 08:44:14 am" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:16:27 -0500 (EST) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey said: > I've just discovered that my inetd has been rejecting connections with > the following message: > > $ ftp ftp.lemis.com > Connected to freebie.lemis.com. > inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. > ftp> > > I took a ktrace of it happening, if that's of any use, and restarted > inetd, which made the problem go away. Any ideas? > If you are running a kernel after about Saturday, then it is a kernel problem, and immediately you should start running an earlier kernel. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message