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From: Rob Simons <rob@xs1.simplex.nl>
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Subject: Weird behaviour provcesses run as root
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Hi,

I'm suffering from a new problem since I installed FreeBSD 2.1
on new hardware.
'finger' produces fine output, no problems, 'finger <user>'
produces a Segmentation fault. 'finger -m <user>' produces
fine output .. ?!
ALl three methods performed as any ordinary user produce fine
output, only root gives the above result.
'top' gives a Segmentation fault when executed as root, all
other users can run it fine.

Get it ?   I don't.

Also at starup I get the following obscure message:
Mar 19 20:31:24 xs1 /kernel: execve: failed to allocate string space
Mar 19 20:31:24 xs1 /kernel: execve: failed to allocate string space
Mar 19 20:31:24 xs1 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port
/dev/ttydi: No such process
Mar 19 20:31:24 xs1 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port
/dev/ttydh: No such process

Maybe these problems are connected ?  Nothing seems wrong later
on, and I can normally use these ttyd ports.

If anyone has any ideas where to look or perhaps knows the answer,
please let me know.

The hardware is a brand new Zappa motherboard, with a Pentium120
processor and 32Mb memory. All devices are SCSI, connected to a
AHA 2940 controller. The serial I/O is a Boca BB2016 board.

- Rob.


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