Subject: Bug in Pine 3.96?

From: "Mario L. Gonzales" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 11:03:06 -0400 (EDT)

Hi folks -- 

Every night pine 3.96 dumps core at 00:45.  I cannot figure out
what is causing it --

Could my cron that cleans /tmp be causing the problem?

mario@panther:/duac/home/mario> gdb -c core 
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Core was generated by `/duac/home/mario/bin/pine'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
#0  0xef674340 in ?? ()
(gdb) 

I would do more debugging, but I am not a guru at gdb.

My question really is -- who is sending the signal 6, Abort?

pine itself?

Anyway -- thanks.

		Mario

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 18:03:01 +0200 (CEST)

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  >Every night pine 3.96 dumps core at 00:45.  I cannot figure out

Voodoo? Hehehe...

  >Could my cron that cleans /tmp be causing the problem?

Unless pine doesn't lock its files properly: no.

...however ... >:-> 

Pruning /tmp with a cron job might not be the best of ideas, anyway. Either
do it manually, or do it on startup. Properly programmed apps clean their
tmp files, anyway. Since it it's "your" cron job (i.e. you're the
supervisor), you might as well consider using a local tmp file.

Furthermore, you'd best use LSEW (low space early warning) in your cron job,
thereby rendering the cron prune superfluous. After all, it really doesn't
matter how big your /tmp dir is, as long as it doesn't affect the system
performance.

Amen,
Robin

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