From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 22 14:50:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26406 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:50:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cerebus.nectar.com (nectar-gw.nectar.com [204.0.249.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26399 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:50:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by cerebus.nectar.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA08032; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:49:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from spawn.nectar.com(10.0.0.101) by cerebus.nectar.com via smap (V2.1) id xma008030; Fri, 22 Jan 99 16:49:56 -0600 Received: from spawn.nectar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spawn.nectar.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA44688; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:49:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Message-Id: <199901222249.QAA44688@spawn.nectar.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-pgp262.txt From: Jacques Vidrine In-reply-to: <000b01be4657$c386e810$02dd71d1@fargo.os.com> References: <000b01be4657$c386e810$02dd71d1@fargo.os.com> Subject: Re: Is this core normal or something sinister? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: "Craig Shrimpton" cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:49:55 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Were you configuring and installing software at the time that uses GNU configure? Many of the applications (most?) in the ports collection use GNU configure. conftest is the name of the small test C programs that GNU configure compiles when attempting to test things on your system, such as determining the size of an ``int'' or what terminal routines are available. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org On 22 January 1999 at 17:37, "Craig Shrimpton" wrote: > I found this in my dmesg queue. I've not seen this one before and I'm > wondering if this is some kind of crack or a normal crash. > > "pid 18958 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)" > > I don't have a clue to what conftest is. > > -Craig > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message