steve@miduet.mifnet.gec-mi-ate.co.uk (Steve Lademann) (05/13/86)
No doubt this is old hat, but for your edification:- There is a bug in /usr/ucb/Mail which occurs when a system name is rather long (as they tend to be when dealing with domain addresses in the uk). This occurred to me when I attempted to reply (r, not R) to mail from a local system whose fully qualified name was 30 characters. The problem exhibits itself as a random crash (either illegal instruction or core dump) which occurs in the routine netlook in /usr/src/ucb/Mail/optim.c The fix is to increase the size of the temporary buffer for the system name nbuf[20] (line 95). I increased it to 40, as there seems to be quite a lot of other stuff with a length of 40 chars, and why should I be different? "Beware the Juggernauts, my son" (Willie Rushton) ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Steve Lademann |Phone: 44 727 59292 x326 | |Marconi Instruments Ltd|UUCP : ...mcvax!ukc!hrc63!miduet!steve | |St. Albans AL4 0JN |NRS : steve@uk.co.gec-mi-ate.mifnet | |Herts. UK | | ---------------------------------------------------------- /\H -- |"The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect"| /__\ | |"those of my employer, and may not even reflect my own"| | | | -----------------------------------------------------------------