On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Chan George wrote: > I am using a Sun SPARC 20 with Solaris 2.5.1 and OS recommended > patches loaded. I had managed to compile nntpcache 1.0.6.5 with gcc > 2.7.2. The binaries is running fine except if I give any option/arguments > I get a core dump. Any ideas? On the other hand, does anybody know > where can I find some info on the tunings? Thanks. I reported on this problem and suggested a patch about a month ago. I'm out of town right now and it's inconvenient with this setup to include the information with this message, however, if you don't get a resolution to your problem drop me a note tomorrow and I should be back on my normal system. The segment fault is caused because they wipe out the argv array before calling getopt to process the command line switches (at least on SunOS 5.4 and apparently 5.5.1 as well.) My suggested patch was to move two lines of code that save environment variables and then wipe out high memory after the loop that processes getopt. I also found out that expire was not working correctly (at least for me) and you might find that a second patch that I recommended will be useful. O- J. Anthony Fitzgerald, jaf@UNB.ca, http://www.unb.ca/csd/staff/jaf/ -O
