lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) (11/15/87)
I've compiled smail 2.5 without any trouble, however the silly
thing core dumps with a memory fault. THEN I discover there's
no adb(1) on the system! Has anyone tracked this down and worked
out a fix?
--lyndon {alberta,pyramid,uwvax}!ncc!lyndonmike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier) (11/15/87)
In article <427@ncc.UUCP>, lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: > I've compiled smail 2.5 without any trouble, however the silly > thing core dumps with a memory fault. THEN I discover there's > no adb(1) on the system! Has anyone tracked this down and worked > out a fix? > It dumps core at line 271 in resolve.c if you use the debugging options in smail 2.5 . This is because of the variable domainv[step] is passing a null pointer as a string into printf - This is a bug in smail, but many Unixes allow this. I sent a message to Microport about adding this feature and got the reply that it was added to their list. I never bothered to fix the bug as smail works great without the debugging option used. BTW, the symbollic debugger under Microport is called 'sdb'. -Mike {ihnp4, amdahl, rutgers}!meccts!cimcor!mike
root@uwspan.UUCP (John Plocher) (11/16/87)
+---- lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes in <427@ncc.UUCP> ---- | I've compiled smail 2.5 without any trouble, however the silly | thing core dumps with a memory fault. THEN I discover there's | no adb(1) on the system! +---- I'm using smail2.5 (installed on Sept 30, 19:28) and according to the file timestamps, I didn't modify anything. I don't know what your problem is, but sdb works quite well for finding bugs. Compile smail with CFLAGS = -O -Ml and DO NOT USE -lmalloc -lmalloc has bugs; if you used it then that is your problem. To find out where the program bombs, add the -g flag to CFLAGS, make, and run smail. When it dumps type in % sdb smail *t <stack trace of procedure nestings> *q % This will print out a procedure name trace with line numbers. sdb(1) is (in some ways) better than adb, but gawd, I miss adb too! -John -- Email to unix-at-request@uwspan with questions about the newsgroup unix-at, otherwise mail to unix-at@uwspan with a Subject containing one of: 386 286 Bug Source Merge or "Send Buglist" (Bangpath: rutgers!uwvax!uwspan!unix-at & rutgers!uwvax!uwspan!unix-at-request)
zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) (11/16/87)
Line 271 of resolve.c is a comment in my version. There is a bug around line 481 of alias.c that occurs if you use .forward files. Add a check that h->string is not null before calling strcmpic. -- Jon Zeeff Branch Technology, uunet!umix!b-tech!zeeff zeeff%b-tech.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu