From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 29 14:33:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.accessus.net (postal.accessus.net [209.145.150.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80FB37B400; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:33:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhea (rhea.accessus.net [207.206.171.50]) by mail1.accessus.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B86C7267B; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:33:29 -0600 (CST) From: "Jason Young" To: "Leif Neland" , "Kris Kennaway" Cc: Subject: RE: libc.so.4 not found Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:38:32 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's a normal part of PHK malloc, the standard FreeBSD malloc. It's for turning on certain debugging options. PHK used a cute trick with symlinks to avoid having to actually open a configuration file. See malloc(3). Jason Young Access US Chief Network Engineer > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Leif Neland > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 4:23 PM > To: Kris Kennaway > Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: libc.so.4 not found > > > > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 10:28:53PM +0100, Leif Neland wrote: > > > Could this be the reason why Avp (virusscanner) for FreeBSD > 4X just dumps > > > core on Fbsd current? > > > It works on a Fbsd stable. > > > > Could be malloc.conf defaults. i.e. a bug in avp triggered by the > > debugging /etc/malloc.conf settings in -current. > > > > Kris > > > A truss shows Avp tries to open /etc/malloc.conf, but I have no such file > on any of my systems, stable or current. > > But Avp continues after this failure. > > Do I need /etc/malloc.conf? Where do I find one? > > Leif > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message