[comp.unix.ultrix] calendar dumps core

fct@raybed2.msd.ray.com (Fred Thompson) (10/01/90)

Has anybody else just had the problem of calendar dumping core on Friday
and Saturday (September 28 and 29). It looks like the egrep gets an
expression from /usr/lib/calendar that it chokes on and dies. It seems
to be working now, but it left a 1meg core file in / (root) when it died.
This is on Ultrix 3.1 (Our 4.0 machines don't run calendar).
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collins@nvpna1.prl.philips.nl (Donal O Coileain) (10/03/90)

In <1814@raybed2.msd.ray.com> fct@raybed2.msd.ray.com (Fred Thompson) writes:
>Has anybody else just had the problem of calendar dumping core on Friday
>and Saturday (September 28 and 29).
>It seems to be working now, but it left a 1meg core file in / (root) when it 
>died.
>This is on Ultrix 3.1 (Our 4.0 machines don't run calendar).

Yep, we had the same problem on our MicroVax 3600 (running Ultrix 3.1).

jhma@ukc.ac.uk (J.H.M.Aldridge) (10/04/90)

In article <1814@raybed2.msd.ray.com> fct@raybed2.msd.ray.com (Fred Thompson) writes:
>Has anybody else just had the problem of calendar dumping core on Friday
>and Saturday (September 28 and 29). It looks like the egrep gets an
>expression from /usr/lib/calendar that it chokes on and dies. 

It is a problem which seems to occur whenever there is a month change over a weekend.
The egrep expression to try and  find four days over two different months is somewhat
more then egrep can handle.  This is also a problem on 4.3BSD's calendar.  I have never
noticed the core file, but that may be a peculiarity of our systems.

> It seems
>to be working now, but it left a 1meg core file in / (root) when it died.
>This is on Ultrix 3.1 (Our 4.0 machines don't run calendar).

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