Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:44:57 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Christian Perrier <perrier@onera.fr> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc5des software crash under 2.2.7-RELEASE Message-ID: <199809300144.UAA05035@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Christian Perrier <perrier@onera.fr> of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:17:18 %2B0200." <19980929141718.A26543@kernighan.onera>
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Christian Perrier writes: > After an installation w/o any problem, I just wanted to have the machine do > something. Then I grabbed the latest rc5des binary distribution from > http://www.distributed.net, installed it in /usr/local/lib/rc5des (owned by > root). > > After configuration, root tried to launch rc5des (I know...that's a Very Bad > Thing To Do) : > > maroussia# ./rc5des > rc5des in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. > Segmentation fault (core dumped) You probably have a bad (or wrong) copy of the rc5des code. I haven't tried to run the FreeBSD 3.0 version, nor a Linux version of rc5des. But its been a very long time since any bovine client hiccuped under FreeBSD. I routinely run it for months at a time. Recently had to abort a run where 1131 blocks where crunched (decided it was time to update my FreeBSD system as it would no longer buildworld the current -stable): [Sep 28 00:56:09 GMT] Completed RC5 block 73686B2C:00000000 (2147483648 keys) 0.01:15:13.94 - [475743.85 keys/sec] [Sep 28 00:56:09 GMT] Summary: 1131 RC5 blocks 42.00:38:41.64 - [490128.85 k/s] [Sep 28 00:56:09 GMT] Started RC5 1*2^30 block 73686B16:40000000 [Sep 28 00:56:09 GMT] 46 RC5 blocks remain in file buff-in.rc5 4 RC5 blocks are in file buff-out.rc5 [Sep 28 01:06:38 GMT] Shutdown message received - Block being saved. And there is absolutely no reason to run it as root, and every reason not to. Put it in your home directory. Or create a special account for it and lock all the rest of the system against read from that account. Some (rightfully) still worry about an unknown background process being run on their system and uploading unknown format data to another server. n4hhe: {391} uname -a FreeBSD n4hhe.ampr.org 2.2.7-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Sun Sep 27 20:05:32 CDT 1998 dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/PPRO200 i386 n4hhe: {392} ls -l rc5des -rwx------ 1 dkelly dkelly 548864 Jul 15 04:29 rc5des n4hhe: {393} md5 rc5des* MD5 (rc5des) = 9657df1aa5bb650b837ccfa5603d443e MD5 (rc5des-freebsd-x86-nomt-static-2.7100.416.tar.gz) = aae2a9ea489c911e156d6bb893d6a7ff n4hhe: {394} The version reported is: RC5DES v2.7100.416 client - a project of distributed.net -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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