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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:10:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      Thomas Stromberg <ventrex.freebsd@UNDER.suspicion.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   junk pointers in inetd again.. yay.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811191258500.57285-100000@under.suspicion.org>

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inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense error
came up again, and then by the time I got half way through this
email (3 minutes) inetd/tcpd started dying off completely. 

Kernel (CVSupped a few minutes before built) 
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FreeBSD under.suspicion.org 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0:
Wed Nov 18 12:35:51 EST 1998     
ventrex@under.suspicion.org:/vol/1/usr/src/sys/compile/blowntoad  i386

Machine:
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P200 MMX with 96M RAM and 200M SWAP. 

Settings:
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16 users, 1.98 load. 

Swap Info:
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with just the junk pointer I was at 131M used (64%) of the 200M SWAP I
had. When I had to kill off inetd because tcpd kept doing exist status 0xb
and then started core dumping itself I was at 63%. 

Some Relevant Syslog Entries: (parsed w/ syslogcat -x)
=============================
- under (Nov19/10:49:40) /kernel: swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 189 MB 
** [tons of stuff taken out, now I'm testing -l -l for an ftpd option]
- under (Nov19/12:52:43) ftpd: connect from localhost 
- under (Nov19/12:52:49) ftpd: login failure for quit (localhost)
- under (Nov19/12:53:04) ftpd: connect from localhost 
- under (Nov19/12:53:33) ftpd: login failure for ventrex (localhost)
- under (Nov19/12:53:34) ftpd: connect from localhost 
- under (Nov19/12:57:23) su: su to root from ventrex (/dev/ttyPk)
** [I think this is where I was getting my junk pointer errors] 
- under (Nov19/12:57:40) kernel: inetd(57259) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/12:58:05) kernel: inetd(57266) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/12:58:15) kernel: inetd(57269) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
** [and now it just ALL goes wrong] 
- under (Nov19/13:00:19) kernel: inetd(57365) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57366) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57367) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57368) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57369) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57370) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57371) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57372) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57374) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57375) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57376) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57377) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57378) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57379) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57380) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57381) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57382) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57383) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57384) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:19) inetd[167]: /usr/local/libexec/tcpd[57365]: exit status 0xb 
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57385) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57386) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:20) kernel: inetd(57387) owned by 0/root exited with a signal (sig11)
- under (Nov19/13:00:19) inetd[167]: /usr/local/libexec/tcpd[57366]: exit status 0xb 
- under (Nov19/13:00:19) inetd[167]: /usr/local/libexec/tcpd[57367]: exit status 0xb 
- under (Nov19/13:00:19) inetd[167]: /usr/local/libexec/tcpd[57368]: exit status 0xb 
** [tons of dying inetd and tcpd entries clipped out here before I killed inetd]
- under (Nov19/13:02:55) tcplog: TCP connect: 209.115.149.34(15835)->UNDER.SUSPICION.ORG(21)
- under (Nov19/13:02:58) tcplog: TCP connect: 209.115.149.34(15835)->UNDER.SUSPICION.ORG(21)
- nuclear (Nov19/12:54:36) sendmail: MAA09575 has been lost! (savemail panic)
- nuclear (Nov19/12:54:36) === message repeated 4 times  ===
- nuclear (Nov19/12:54:36) sendmail: MAA09575 has been rejected but cannot be saved.


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