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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:00:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        felix@royal.net
Cc:        "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HELP - Has anyone seen this?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971028135923.15098C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971028200957.3084B-100000@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk>

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On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Aled Treharne wrote:

> > > inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
> > > ftp>
> > > 
> > It's harmless.  If it bugs you, have inetd's log output placed in a
> > different file.  See syslog.conf.
> 
> Hmmm. Harmless? One thing this does is to stop ftp logins and su's to
> root. Having run 2.2.2 for several months I decided to change to 2.2.5
> yesterday. I had the junk pointer error a few times in 2.2.2 but they
> stopped. Now it's restarted again. Any idea what actually causes it and
> is there an easy way or even a hard way of getting rid of it?

It shouldn't stop su to root since it's long after inetd gets through.  It
shouldn't do anything to ftp either, unless it never gets started.  What
error messages are you seeing?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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