dubois@rhesus.UUCP (Paul DuBois) (10/04/87)
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We're running Ultrix 1.2 on a VAX 8200. Occasionally, 'f' dumps core
without producing any output. If the command is repeated long enough,
it eventually stops dumping, and succeeds. Is there something that
it's trying to access that's inaccessible momentarily? Or what?
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Paul DuBois UUCP: {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!rhesus!dubois |
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"Suffering is the finger exercising of the spirit." - Mr. Theo |avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) (10/05/87)
In-Reply-To: <8710041922.AA00429@fritz.UUCP> (felix!rhesus!dubois) Yes. This was a bug which I introduced (sorry) when fixing another bug. It seems to happen when the list of users is very long *and* of a certain number of characters (you begin to get the picture, eh?). This is fixed in 2.0. Paul, drop me a note if you need it fixed before upgrading. Fred
pete@tsc.dec.com (Pete Schmitt) (10/07/87)
Try upgrading your system to Ultrix 2.0-1, we are there with no problems with f (aka finger)
jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) (10/07/87)
In article <8253@felix.UUCP> dubois@rhesus.UUCP (Paul DuBois) writes: >We're running Ultrix 1.2 on a VAX 8200. Occasionally, 'f' dumps core >without producing any output. If the command is repeated long enough, >it eventually stops dumping, and succeeds. Is there something that >it's trying to access that's inaccessible momentarily? Or what? > | >"Suffering is the finger exercising of the spirit." - Mr. Theo | Another reader of L'Engle's "other" books? 'f', or 'finger', had a bug in our distributions of 4.2BSD and Ultrix 1.0 and 1.1. It always core-dumped when invoked without flags, but when invoked with flags (e.g., -l, the default), it worked fine. I just alias'ed 'f' to 'finger -l'. Joe Yao jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised) hadron!jsdy@{uunet.UU.NET,dtix.ARPA,decuac.DEC.COM} att,blkcat,cos,decuac,dtix,ecogong,phw5,\ inco,insight,itc3b2,kcwc,netex,netxcom, >!hadron!jsdy empire,rlgvax,seismo,smsdpg,sundc,uunet /