Actually they can set up a sandbox, since the under-pinnings of OS X is Darwin, which is freely available for download, and is all that is needed for ircu.
On 12/10/07, Holland Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some time ago I submitted a patch to compile ircu on OS X (which I > believe it or some variant of it was used). I don't have time to write > one for 10.5 but I can provide a shell on a 10.5.1Server if that > would be of any use. > > > On Dec 9, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Michael Poole wrote: > > > Tom Rons writes: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am running into an error when trying to start u2.10.12.12 on > >> MacOS X > >> 10.5.1. I got the latest release through cvs and it compiled > >> flawlessly. However, after I create an ircd.conf in the "new syntax", > >> when I try to start the daemon I get the following error: "error > >> setting max fd's to -1". Since it compiled fine, I figured this must > >> be something trivial. During the configuration routine, the script > >> states "checking max connections... 252", which leads me to believe > >> that the file descriptor settings should be OK.. > >> > >> I have ran ircu in the past, though this took place on remote servers > >> using ssh access. I recently purchased an iMac and am still getting > >> in > >> to Mac OS X, I figured perhaps anyone here has encountered the same > >> problem? Either way, thanks for your help / suggestions. > > > > It sounds like OS X is doing something unusual with either the > > getrlimit() or setrlimit() system call. You'll have to either do the > > debugging and diagnostics yourself or find someone who will -- since > > it is a commercial OS, coder-com members can't easily set up a sandbox > > to play with it. > > > > One early step would be to change line 185 in s_bsd.c (the "error > > setting max fd's" line) to something like this: > > fprintf(stderr, "error setting max fds to %d: %s\n", limit, > > strerror(errno)); > > That would at least give the error message, although it wouldn't say > > why OS X works differently than every other Unix variant that we have > > tested ircu on. > > > > Entrope > > _______________________________________________ > > Coder-com mailing list > > Coder-com@undernet.org > > http://undernet.sbg.org/mailman/listinfo/coder-com > > _______________________________________________ > Coder-com mailing list > Coder-com@undernet.org > http://undernet.sbg.org/mailman/listinfo/coder-com > _______________________________________________ Coder-com mailing list Coder-com@undernet.org http://undernet.sbg.org/mailman/listinfo/coder-com
