On Thu, 15 May 2003, Cowles, Steve wrote:spamassassin had this problem as well. you might be able to dig in their list archive for an explanation/description of the error.
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Diehl Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 9:52 PM Subject: Big Brother and 9
Can someone tell me if this is something to be worried about?
I'm getting this error on BBDISPLAY server on RH linux 9.0. Any fix that anybody knows ?
May 15 16:00:12 kbnms kernel: application bug: bbd(456) has SIGCHLD
set to SIG_IGN but calls wait().
May 15 16:00:12 kbnms kernel: (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait').
Workaround activated
This is with Big Brother and 9. It was reported on the bb list and since eventually I intend to upgrade the bbdisplay
to 9 I would like to know what's the scoop on this.
Can't add anymore than what has already been posted to the bigbrother list. A good starting point...
http://support.bb4.com/archive/200305/msg00308.html
I have read the stuff from the bb list and there does not seem to be anything more there than people guessing at what is going on. By posting here I was
hoping (maybe incorrectly) that someone familiar with what the above error
really means would comment.
I guess if I were a c programmer the notes in "man 2 wait" referenced above would actually mean something. sigh oh well!! :-(
FWIW: I have seen the above error logged at my end since upgrading to RH-9, but so far it has not caused any problems what so ever. Bigbrother is running just fine as a BBDISPLAY and in bb-client modes. I have 3 linux systems here.
I suspect that my experience would also be that things work however I get
concerned any time some program starts spewing things into my logs that I do not understand.
hth
Steve
