stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) (10/30/90)
I'm having a very peculiar problem on the Apollo with rn and Pnews.
Whenever someone tries to followup to an article, they get all the
way through the process of running Pnews, and right at the point
when Pnews tries to do "inews -h < article_file", it fails
with a segmentation fault, ie, "Pnews: [14211]: Segmentation fault".
However, when you run Pnews outside of rn, or type the command
"inews -h < .article" after having Pnews prepare the article,
it works flawlessly.
This is the first time I've ever seen a segmentation fault from
a shell script...
Any ideas, anyone? My users are getting cranky...
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Mike Pelletier - Usenet News Admin & Programmer
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something to be gotten rid of, but something to be danced with."chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen) (10/31/90)
In article <1990Oct29.190731.24923@engin.umich.edu> stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes: >I'm having a very peculiar problem on the Apollo with rn and Pnews. >Whenever someone tries to followup to an article, they get all the >way through the process of running Pnews, and right at the point >when Pnews tries to do "inews -h < article_file", it fails >with a segmentation fault, ie, "Pnews: [14211]: Segmentation fault". I have seen this problem before but have yet to figure it out. It happens when I use Configure in the perl package, running BSD csh (actually Configure switches itself to sh). If I run the perticular command that caused seg. fault (I turn on set -x to find out), no problem. If I run Configure in /sys5.3/bin/sh, no problem either. -- Jinfu Chen (602)898-5338 Motorola, Inc. SPS Mesa, AZ ...uunet!motsps!digital!chen chen@digital.sps.mot.com CMS: RXFR30 at MESAVM ----------