Charlie, I think some of the DB formats pre-allocate space in their
datafiles -- is it possible they just didn't zero the bytes out or
something? What happens when you run tools/check_whitelist?
C
on 2/20/02 11:25 AM, Charlie Watts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 19 Feb 2002, Craig Hughes wrote:
>
>> Ok, it's done. That was the last thing on the list to get done before a
>> 2.1 release, so now I think I'll go ahead and release in a day or two
>> (after people have a chance to notice that the new stuff is broken).
>
> I updated after getting your message yesterday, and it's been running
> since last night with -a.
>
> However, spamd just died on me for the first time in months.
>
> I've restarted it without the -a flag; I'll let this run a few days, and
> then try again with -a (and -D).
>
> Looking at the auto-whitelist.db file, it's broken ... here's a snippet
> from it:
>
> ^B
> <EE> <ED> <CF> <CE> <AB> <AA> <88> <85> <AF<85>
> nless(defined(&SY
> S_yield)) {
> sub SYS_yield () { 321;}
> }
> unless(defined(&SYS_thr_sleep)) {
> sub SYS_thr_sleep () { 322;}
> }
> unless(defined(&SYS_thr_wakeup)) {
> sub SYS_thr_wakeup () { 323;}
> }
> unless(defined(&SYS_mlockall)) {
> sub SYS_mlockall () { 324;}
> }
> unless(defined(&SYS_munlockall)) {
> sub SYS_munlockall () { 325;}
> }
> unless(defined(&SYS___getcwd)) {
> sub SYS___getcwd () { 326;}
> }
> unless(defined(&SYS_sched_setparam)) {
> sub SYS_sched_setparam () { 327;}
>
> I've never seen anything like that in a .db before.
>
> And this was also in the auto-whitelist.db file:
>
> l2tp 115 L2TP # Layer Two Tunneling Protocol
> ddx 116 DDX # D-II Data Exchange
> iatp 117 IATP # Interactive Agent Transfer Protocol
> st 118 ST # Schedule Transfer
> srp 119 SRP # SpectraLink Radio Protocol
> uti 120 UTI # UTI
> smp 121 SMP # Simple Message Protocol
> sm 122 SM # SM
> ptp 123 PTP # Performance Transparency Protocol
> isis 124 ISIS # ISIS over IPv4
> fire 125 FIRE
>
>
> But I don't see how the code could have done that. So obviously the stack
> got broken. Perhaps some locking interaction? Perhaps it's a fluke ...
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