palowoda@megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) (04/10/89)
I have been running a XBBS for
a little while now and I am haveing a problem with getting a newer
version running that I hope someone can an insight to going on here.
Or has seen this before.
First some config details:
Machine: 286, 6meg mem, Xenix 2.2.1. TrailBlazier+ modem.
bbsc1 is located in /v/bbs/bbsfiles/bbsc1
areas.bbs is located /v/bbs/bbsfiles/areas.bbs
My ORGPATH is /v/bbs/bbsfiles/
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I'm running XBBS 7.2.3 and want to upgrade to 7.3.0. I have
the sources and compiled it. I had to add the -LARGE switch
to compile bbsc1.c (to get rid of OUT OF HEAP message) other
than that the Make file is what is supplied.
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Now for the problem. When I run the new bbsc1 and go to the
(F)iles area it reports that there is a problem opening the
files area. I did some printf's after it does a
strcpy(buf128,AREAS) and it looks as if it's a NULL. Nothing
prints out. Everything else works fine except for the files
area and when the bbs starts up striping the config file strings
and that dosn't report an error.
It appears that the AREAS string got trashed, zeroed out somewhere
but I don't have a clue where?
As a standby I have the binary bbsc1 from 7.2.3 which I copy back
and it works with the same .config.bbs file the 7.3.0 is
bombing out on.
Any ideas of what could be happening?
---Bob
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In article <3724@megatest.UUCP>, palowoda@megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes: > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > I'm running XBBS 7.2.3 and want to upgrade to 7.3.0. I have > the sources and compiled it. I had to add the -LARGE switch > to compile bbsc1.c (to get rid of OUT OF HEAP message) other > than that the Make file is what is supplied. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Now for the problem. When I run the new bbsc1 and go to the > (F)iles area it reports that there is a problem opening the > files area. I did some printf's after it does a > strcpy(buf128,AREAS) and it looks as if it's a NULL. Nothing Bob.... The problems is that Xenix286 is running out of heap space. This problem actually started with version 7.2.5 and I haven't really had the time to fix it for the 286 version. Under Xenix386, all is well. Until I get the chance, you can easily modify the strcpy line to implicity load into buf128 the actually "ORGPATH" for your system. This, I know, will work until I move some of the dynamic buffers to a static region. Sandy P.S. I have/had a message on my system about the 286 problem. Know you know why I went to a 386 machine under Xenix386! Sanford <sandy> Zelkovitz XBBS ---- 714-898-8634