From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 15:13:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A259937BB09 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e3BMeMB29111; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:40:22 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Lanny Baron Cc: Dan Langille , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CRON in malloc(): warning: pointer to wrong page. Message-ID: <20000411154021.T4381@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200004112018.IAA04193@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from lnb@freebsdsystems.com on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 05:14:33PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On 11-Apr-00 Dan Langille wrote: > > On 11 Apr 00, at 13:37, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > >> * Dan Langille [000411 13:35] wrote: > >> > The following type of mail message is arriving on a regular basis. They > >> > are related to each cron job that starts up. > >> > > >> > Date sent: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:55:01 +1200 (NZST) > >> > From: root (Cron Daemon) > >> > To: root > >> > Subject: Cron /usr/libexec/atrun > >> > > >> > CRON in malloc(): warning: pointer to wrong page. > >> > > >> > I can't see anything in /var/log/messages related to this. > >> > > >> > Coincidentally (or not), the box rebooted itself yesterday. Any clues for > >> > me please? > >> > >> Not without more information, like... what version of FreeBSD you're > >> running amongst other things. :) > > > > Damn. I must not send question first thing in the morning. Thanks. > > > ># uname -a > > FreeBSD ducky.nz.freebsd.org 3.3-19991207-SNAP FreeBSD 3.3- > > 19991207-SNAP #0: Mon Jan 31 19:23:58 NZDT 2000 > > root@ducky.nz.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/DUCKY33S i386 > > > > No build worlds have been done lately. No new software added lately. * Lanny Baron [000411 14:40] wrote: > Hey JM, > when you get the answer let me know. I had same damn problem. It is gone now, > but I don't know why it came and why it left. I looked at man malloc, however I > can't remember if I did anything from that page. Ugh, I can't find the delta in CVS but I remeber some problem that cropped up with cron from around that date, my best suggetion is to update to 3.4-stable where i'm pretty sure it has been corrected. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message