afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) (06/23/91)
The following lines come from the 'ngsizes' script, by Chip Rosenthal,
that displays /usr/spool/news/* directory usage:
ACTIVE=/usr/lib/news/active
sed -e 's/[ ].*//' -e '/^$/d' $ACTIVE | sort -u > $TMP.ngs
It turns out that everything works as expected, except "sort -u". Even
that used to work fine until a few days ago. I wonder if the active
file has grown past a critical point or if a specific sequence of lines
in my active file is the culprit.
wc /usr/lib/news/active shows 768 newsgroups:
768 3072 31131 /usr/lib/news/active
I tend to believe the former since running the above sed script and sorting
its output without the -u option works fine, however, running 'sort -u' on
the previously sorted output of the sed script dumps core.
Can somebody duplicate this problem? or is *my* active file responsible?
This is the output of 'sum /bin/sort' (from 3.51.)
18858 9 /bin/sort
And this is what sdb has to say. Anybody with source wanna take a look?
Core file 'core' Memory Fault (11) at
Warning: '/bin/sort` has no symbols
: address 0x8135a
>
I suppose it's time to get GNU sort...
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