Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!iuvax!ndmath!dean
From: dean@ndmath.UUCP (Dean Alvis)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Strange Core Dumps
Message-ID: <516@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 87 01:59:46 GMT
References: <2122@crash.cts.com> <508@ndmath.UUCP>
Organization: Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame
Lines: 18
Summary: similar problems here (correction)

In article <508@ndmath.UUCP>, dean@ndmath.UUCP (Dean Alvis) writes:
> In article <2122@crash.cts.com>, bblue@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue) writes:
> > [...]
> There have been similar problems here recently with BITNET postings to
> comp.lang.modula2. We haven't had core dumps, but the articles cause their
> rnews process to die (running "lastcomm rnews" shows an "X" for the
> corresponding process), and aren't sent to downstream sites. Also, there are
                              ^^^^^^ ^^^^

after checking downstream, it appears the articles *were* sent. if i
remember correctly, there were no corresponding "sent" lines in 
/usr/lib/news/log, however. if this is correct, it suggest the problem is
in broadcast() or transmit() (in ifuncs.c).

	dean
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Dean Alvis, Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN, 46556