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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: what about uucp working again???
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 20:26:12 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- Message-ID: <1ge704INNs4g@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
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- ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman ) writes:
-
- >root@umibox.hanse.de writes:
- >: After upgrading to pl6, I know have developed kind fo skill in rebooting -
- >: every time I want to use uucp (and this is my newsfeed, so once or twice per
- >: day) it's going back to pl3, uucp'ing, and back to pl6.
- >: This is somehow annoying, and I thought it was some dumb mistake I made
- >: until I recently read that already pl5 broke the uucp stuff.
-
- >pl6 breaks it too.
-
- >: Even worse, I have by mistake deleted my mailpak, and such am not easily
- >: able to recompile. I could of course pick it up again, but would be somehow
- >: disappointed to see that the new binaries would still coredump.
-
- >Not good. Having the source code helps, but....
-
- >: Now, is there a working uucp (+stuff) out there somewhere? Does recompiling
- >: help?....
-
- >For me, so far, even with the ever-so-highly-recommended "-fwritable-strings"
- >flag as part of the CFLAGS in the Makefile, the answer is a very resounding
- >"NO". I've been testing the holy hell out of the uucico code with gdb and
- >have found that it barfs on the sigaction() call in the usset_signal() fun-
- >ction in sys1.c (hardlinked to sys1.unx). At least I've gotten that far,
- >but I don't know enough about the innards of the system (though I do have
- >source code for same innards) or have any other source code which makes
- >use of the sigaction() (that I know of) to rip apart and analyze.
-
- >Hope this helps anyone who's been hacking away at UUCP.
-
- >BTW, I still have _MY_ mailpak.. Shame on you for zapping your copy! :-)
- >--
- >Born to void warranties! ianj@ijpc.UUCP
-
- The reason it barfs on sigaction, is that function is broke in the current
- library release. I know at least one guy that has uucp running just fine under
- pl6, with the emergency new libs.
-
- James
-