> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Anssi Sallinen wrote:
>
> > Feb 17 23:41:48 neutron diald[2226]: Running connector (pid = 2238).
> > Feb 17 23:42:13 neutron diald[2226]: child process 2238 terminated with signal
> > 11
> > Feb 17 23:42:13 neutron diald[2226]: Connect script failed.
> > Feb 17 23:42:13 neutron diald[2226]: Closing /dev/ttyS1
>
> Welcome to the club. I just upgraded to diald-0.98.2 and had much the
> same problem. After about an hour for screwing around, I think I've got
> it figured out. You compiled in TCP wrapper support, didn't you? That's
> what I did, and that's the problem. The short answer is to recompile
> without tcp wrapper support.
>
> Here's the slightly longer answer: In the process of debugging the
> problem, I was able to use gdb to connect to the child processes, and see
> what was going so terribly wrong in them. It turns out that you never
> even get to running the connection script - instead, the problem occurs
> after the fork of the child, and before the exec of the connect script.
> The problem is that libwrap.a has a function in it called setenv. Why
> someone chose to put a function with that name in, I have no clue.
> Anyway, when diald is compiled, instead of using the setenv command in
> libc, like we should, this other setenv from libwrap gets used. It goes
> into infinite recursion for some unknown reason, and bam!, a SIG11 when
> the process runs out of stack space.
> So, there are a couple of ways around this problem. As I mentioned
> above, compile without tcp wrapper support for now. Or, someone could go
> in and modify all of the setenv calls in diald to call putenv. Or,
> someone could fix libwrap so that it doesn't contain braindead-named
> functions. I may attempt the second option if I get some time (although
> probably not very soon).
> I'm rather curious why not all of the people running diald with
> tcp-wrapper support are seeing this problem <shrug>
>
> Anyway, I hope that fixes your problem.
Thanks very much! It solved my problem right-away.
Regards,
Anssi Sallinen
Helsinki, Finland
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