From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 16 23:21:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA24142 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 23:21:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA24134 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 23:21:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id PAA17047; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:51:07 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980717155107.O566@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:51:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Shawn Ramsey , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd error References: <19980716223957.42123@cpl.net> <19980717152056.N566@freebie.lemis.com> <19980716232148.40227@cpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980716232148.40227@cpl.net>; from Shawn Ramsey on Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 11:21:48PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 16 July 1998 at 23:21:48 -0700, Shawn Ramsey wrote: >>> I am getting the following when I login, and telnet to the pop3 server(and >>> probably on the console as well : >>> >>> inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. >>> >>> anyone know what this means, >> >> It's a bug in inetd. >> >>> and maybe how to fix it? >> >> Stop inetd and restart it. > > That was easy. What causes this bug to appear?? What causes any bug? For some reason, we're having difficulties with this one. It seems to occur as the result of memory shortage, and indicates a bug in inetd and possibly in the virtual memory system. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message