From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 28 14:01:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA24632 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:01:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA24606 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:00:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA15115; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:00:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:00:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: felix@royal.net cc: "Randy A. Katz" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP - Has anyone seen this? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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