From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 20 20:15:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA18125 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 20:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA18106 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 20:14:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA00282; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 17:57:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 17:57:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Leonard cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970720001706.0069d888@pop.slip.net> 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 Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Leonard wrote: > >inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. > > I got this message after trying to FTP in to my machine from another > computer on the LAN and kept failing. Strangely, I got this message while > telnetting in to find out the cause. Can anyone tell me what this means? > This is a message from the system malloc library saying that it may be getting invalid pointers. This is usually caused by programming errors, but it's interesting to see inetd spitting these out. You might check your inetd.conf and make sure it's properly formatted. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo