From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 10:14:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA05265 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:14:11 -0800 Received: from pelican.com (pelican.com [134.24.4.62]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA05256 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:14:06 -0800 Received: from puffin.pelican.com by pelican.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0tDxxL-000K38C; Fri, 10 Nov 95 10:13 WET Received: by puffin.pelican.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) id m0tDxxK-0000ReC; Fri, 10 Nov 95 10:13 PST Message-Id: Date: Fri, 10 Nov 95 10:13 PST From: pete@puffin.pelican.com (Pete Carah) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: INN and FreeBSD 2.0.5 In-Reply-To: <199511090030.AAA08171@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In article <199511090030.AAA08171@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> you write: >Richard W. Gross stands accused of saying: >> I have problems with my news machine with the following: -- >> Nov 8 14:20:16 inout /kernel: pid 21668: sh: uid0: exited on signal 11 >> --- >Sounds like hardware problems; sig11 is a great indicator of bad memory. If he's running INN, it is a well-known problem; you can't run innwatch with the freebsd default shell; you *MUST* use bash (maybe pdksh, but bash certainly works). (there is apparently a problem with how ash handles IFS; there may be more problems too; several INN scripts count on non-standard IFS and innwatcch is one of them). >> And one of the hard drives starts seeking back and forth... >Is it actually doing anything? Yes, saving core files of the shell about once/second. Good for keeping nearly anything else from happening. >> Any ideas what this means? >What hardware are you running? Not relevant. Go and put #!/bin/bash (or whatever your path to bash is) in the top of *all* the INN scripts in place of #! /bin/sh and the problem will go away. This should be documented in our port of INN (which I have never used, preferring to customize a bit from the distribution so as to get the streaming patch in and such.) -- Pete