Wackamole-users] Re: Segfault when running wackamole in foreground

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> On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 11:54:25AM -0400, Ryan Caudy wrote:
> > Hi!  I don't know about why Wackamole is segfaulting, although I'll look
> > into it if it continues as a problem for you.  My concern is that your
> > spread.conf seems incorrect, which might cause wackamole to behave in an
> > odd manner.
>
> Thanks for pointing that out-- I was seeing some odd ICMP redirects which
> have now stopped happening.  Will check out the "mature time" discussion
> earlier, but I think I know what you're getting at.
>
> Unfortunately it didn't change the segfaulting behaviour when running in
> the foreground; I will try it on OpenBSD later to see if that behaves the
> same way.  It's only a problem in that: 1) it makes me worry that
> wackamole may keel over while managing our routers' IP addresses, though
> presumably this list's experience can tell me otherwise, and 2) I can't
> supervise the daemon the way I'd like.  The main thing is that it works,
> but if you have the time to look into it that would be great :)


i dunno if it is breaking other things but i have experienced the very same 
problem with segfaulting and i was able to fix that after compiling 
wackamole without thread support. i suppose the glibc/threadlib is to blame 
in that case ...



cheers,
-- matt.



> cheers,
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