Re: stable innd is segfaulting
miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote:
>In article <cistron.20000116004851.A17998@cam.ac.uk>,
>Colin Watson <cjw44@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>Eventually I traced the problem to innd itself dying when innxmit tries
>>to submit articles to it. The tail of an strace looks like this
>>(apologies for the long lines):
>
>There is a bug in innd with a certain kind of headers - if an
>article contains "Distribution: ," innd will fall over and die.
>Ofcourse it didn't accept the article yet, so after a restart it
>will most likely receive the same article again, and keep on dying
That sounds very plausible; I now wish I'd kept the article that caused
this to happen, but at the time I had got myself fixated on the idea
that it must be something in the system rather than a particular article
(as we'd been fiddling with the INN configuration immediately before it
happened).
Various workarounds in suck suggest themselves; I'll hack something
together. Thanks!
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Are they? I see that address in your From: header, and no Reply-To:
header (though the latter could be an artefact of my own mail2news
setup). Does this .sig only apply internally?
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Colin Watson [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]
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