Okay, I'm new here, so give me a moment's peace first... ;-)
Two issue, but I managed to get nntpcache...
1) ftp on 'suburbia.net' doesn't echo back anything if I try 'ls' or 'dir'
- I managed to guess the filename I was looking for, and when I tried 'get
nntpcache-1.0.6.tar.gz' it succeeded, but I was unable to do a 'ls' and get
a result anywhere...
2) I'm trying to run nntpcache on a Sparc running SparcLinux. I was able
to compile nntpcache with little/no difficulty, but after doing so, it would
crash with a SEGV while setting up the mmap. Compiling identical source on
my Intel machine had no problems, but do to resource utilization, I can't
run nntpcache on it - I need to run it on my Sparc system. Am I doing
something wrong, or is there something wrong with my SparcLinux system, or
is there a bug? My system is an SUN SparcStation IPC with 12 megs of memory
(Yes, I know it's pathetic ;-) and is running RedHat Sparc/Linux 4.1.1
(Vandy, Jr.)
Quoth my syslog:
May 1 22:26:32 shark nntpcached[7464]: waiting for connections on
DEFAULT:119...
May 1 22:26:33 shark nntpcached[7464]: nntpcache.c:529:Bad file number:
mmap() attach to cache.mmap failed (probably corrupted...removing it and
trying again)
May 1 22:26:33 shark nntpcached[7464]: nntpcache.c:511:Bad file number:
re-creating cache.mmap
May 1 22:26:33 shark nntpcached[7464]: nntpcache.c:95:Bad file number:
SIGSEGV!
At this point, it dies. I've tried tracking down a bug in the code, but
my C experience is not the best - I have traced it to the specific line
that appears to be generating the SEGV...
In file 'mmalloc/attach.c' (A standard GNU library?) Line numbers and
commentary provided. ;-)
145: if ((mbase = mdp -> morecore (mdp, sizeof (mtemp) + initial_size)) != NULL)
146: {
** Execution gets to this point okay...
147: memcpy (mbase, mdp, sizeof (mtemp));
** nntpcached dies with a SIGSEGV before getting to this point...
148: mdp = (struct mdesc *) mbase;
149: mdp -> morecore (mdp, -initial_size);
150: }
Thanks lots! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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