Re: weird error messages

[Lerale Erwan <erwan@fr.clara.net>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 08:31:17AM -0800, Ron Farrer wrote:
> Lerale Erwan (erwan@fr.clara.net) wrote:
> 
> > I'm getting this error message when snort is started. Snort seems to
> > work properly...
> > 
> > Mar 11 16:11:33 hot kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
> > Mar 11 16:11:33 hot kernel: snort(353): unaligned trap at 000000012000e390: 0000000120069a4e 28 2
> > Mar 11 16:11:33 hot kernel: snort(353): unaligned trap at 000000012000e4e4: 0000000120069a4e 28 1
> > Mar 11 16:11:33 hot kernel: snort(353): unaligned trap at 000000012000ea9c: 0000000120069a6e 28 1
> > Mar 11 16:11:33 hot kernel: snort(353): unaligned trap at 000000012000eb20: 0000000120069a5a 22 10
> > 
> > I don't understand why these error messages are being generated.
> 
> They are mostly harmless. It can, however, effect system
> performance. snort and a few other apps need some work to make them
> run correctly on Alpha. Hopefully Chris (hint hint) can fix snort
> sometime this week as he and I both are getting them.

Before switching to postfix, i was getting the same kind of error with smail :)

Jan 17 10:42:49 debian kernel: smail(165): unaligned trap at 0000000120037b58: 000000012009251c 2d 0
Jan 17 10:42:49 debian kernel: smail(165): unaligned trap at 0000000120037b64: 0000000120092524 27 10
Jan 17 10:42:49 debian kernel: smail(165): unaligned trap at 0000000120037b6c: 000000012009252c 27 11
Jan 17 10:42:49 debian kernel: smail(165): unaligned trap at 0000000120037b8c: 0000000120092514 27 10

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