gengenba@forwiss.uni-passau.de (Michael Gengenbach) (03/30/91)
Hi,
I failed in using the newsgate package from Rich $alz for setting up an
mail-to-news-gateway at our site.
I used cc on a DECsystem 5810 running ULTRIX V4.1 (Rev. 200). The newsgate
software was Revision 1.2 Patchlevel 10, as posted in USENET. The getdate.o
comes from Bnews 2.11.17 (but we are running C News normally).
Everything compiles fine, but when I use mail2news, I get a segmentation
fault. That's what dbx says:
(dbx) file hdr.c
(dbx) stop at 406
[2] stop at "hdr.c":406
(dbx) run -. -n lists.tester < test
[2] stopped at [FixFrom:406 ,0x402624] if (host = gethostbyname(p))
(dbx) print p
0x7fff8a41 = "forwiss.uni-passau.DE"
(dbx) print *hp
struct {
approved = ""
ctlmsg = ""
subdate = "Thu, 28 Mar 91 22:26:25 MET"
distribution = ""
expdate = ""
followto = ""
from = "gengenba@forwiss.uni-passau.de (Michael Gengenbach)"
followid = ""
keywords = ""
ident = "<9103282126.AA06653@elendil.forwiss.uni-passau.de.forwiss.uni-passa
u.de>"
nbuf = "lists.tester"
organization = ""
title = "Test Test Test"
replyto = ""
summary = ""
path = ""
sender = ""
}
(dbx) step
Segmentation fault [_findenv:82 +0x8,0x4113c4]
Source not available
(dbx) where
> 0 _findenv(0x7fff790c, 0x3, 0x20, 0x10003394, 0x410434) ["../getenv.c":82, 0x
4113c4]
1 getenv.getenv(0x10004c68, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x7fff8a41) ["../getenv.c":59, 0x4
1134c]
2 res_init(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) [0x410430]
3 gethostbyname_bind(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) [0x408f7c]
4 gethostbyname(0x7fff8638, 0x7fffa0fb, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) [0x408a44]
5 FixFrom(hp = (nil)) ["hdr.c":406, 0x402628]
6 HackHeader(hp = 0x7fff92c8, SubjectRequired = 1) ["hdr.c":493, 0x40280c]
7 main(ac = 4, av = 0x7fffbb04) ["mail2news.c":507, 0x403d7c]
(dbx)
I tried to disable that feature by undefining DO_ADDRESS_CLEANUP, but then
I get the next segmentation fault in cgtdate (again in _findenv). I have
no such problems on a Sun SPARC, but our news-server happens to be that
DECsystem.
Any ideas what might be wrong? Is it my fault or is Ultrix broken or maybe
the newsgate sources?
Michael
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Michael Gengenbach, FORWISS Passau, gengenbach@forwiss.uni-passau.dersalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (04/03/91)
Ultrix doesn't like "environ = (char **)0;". This and a few other things are fixed in the first patch, going out April 3. -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.