Re: 'who' seg faults


Michal Jaegermann (michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca)
Mon, 28 Dec 1998 17:19:48 -0700 (MST)


Jeff Downs wrote:
>
> When looking through my logs today, I noticed unaligned traps
> cause by /usr/bin/who

These are not cause for what follows.

> Upon running it, it seg faulted.

.....
>
>
> This is RedHat 5.0 for the alpha, with all relevant patches up
> until about a week ago.
....
> Has anyone else seen this?

Yes. This is caused by an "improvement" from Red Hat not present
in original 'who' sources. It was reported a long time ago.
I think that I even posted a fix on this list but maybe not.
Your /var/log/wtmp file has to grow big enough before it hits.

> Is this fixed in the 'who' that ships
> with 5.1?

I believe that the current version of sh-utils has this fixed
but I cannot tell which version was the first one corrected
(if any).

  Michal

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