From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 25 12:45: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F2E537B401 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:44:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA91091; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:44:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Charlie Root Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. References: <200101241537.f0OFbHd07268@granny.bwa.penx.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 25 Jan 2001 21:44:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: Charlie Root's message of "Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:37:17 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charlie Root writes: > granny# mk > >> mysql-3.23.32.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. > >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.kernelnotes.de/MySQL/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/. > Requesting http://www.kernelnotes.de/MySQL/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/mysql-3.23.32.tar.gz > ftp: Error retrieving file: 404 Not Found > > ftp in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. > Segmentation fault - core dumped > >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.mysql.net/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/. > Requesting http://www.mysql.net/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/mysql-3.23.32.tar.gz Why are you using ftp(1) to fetch ports instead of fetch(1) which is the default? Don't even think about it - ftp(1)'s HTTP support is symbolic at best. It pretends to be an HTTP/1.0 client, but in practice is little more than an HTTP/0.9 client using HTTP/1.0 request syntax. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message