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: <508@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 87 00:51:25 GMT
References: <2122@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame
Lines: 17
Summary: similar problem here

In article <2122@crash.cts.com>, bblue@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue) writes:
> [...]
> In my last five runaways (core dumps or panics), all of which happened
> while inews was unbatching, after examining the .ar* and .in* files that
> were being processed at the time of the runaway, I find that in EVERY
> case they are BITNET articles posted to comp.lang.modula2!  Dum da dum dum....
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
residual ".arXXXXXX" and ".inXXXXXX" files. The environment is a Sun-2
running 4.2BSD, with 2.11news at patch level 14.

I'd appreciate e-mail if anyone figures this out.
-- 
dean@ndmath.UUCP
Dean Alvis, Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN, 46556