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