[news.software.nntp] NNTPD core dumps

dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (02/26/89)

	This probably is an old problem, but...

	I am running NNTP 1.5, patch #3 (I think) and find that /etc/nntpd
keeps dumping core. ADB reports that it happens in ihave(), most likely
when ihave() is trying to return after a "Got it". The stack seems trashed.
(On a VAX 11/750 running MtXinu 4.3BSD, not the latest rev.)

	Any clues, fixes ? Please respond by email. Thanks.

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karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (02/28/89)

A possible solution: Check that both your news software and your NNTP
software is linked with the same type of DBM support, i.e, both -ldbm
or both NDBM.  I had this sort of trouble when I first installed NNTP.
It caused the sort of coredumps you describe.  NNTP's supplied conf.h
uses NDBM; the supplied defs.h in the news software uses DBM.

--Karl