On Thu, May 1, 2008 10:47 am, Kat wrote:
> Hi
>
> For those who are interested - the solution to the strange
> seg fault problem:
>
> Seems my other "soon to be ex" admin had been playing
> around with some profile type scripts and made some path
> changes. He had also been working on his own 'nessus'
> programs and when he made the path change a program he had
> been writing for the client, was called instead of the
> standard nessus command. The problem was simple --
>
> In his program he had a call to getlogin() function, which
> of course, under cron returns a null pointer. He was nto
> checking this and was returned the function call directly
> via strcpy - poof - seg fault!
>
> Thanks for the suggestions, but in the end - it was a bad
> sys admin that was doing things he should not have been
> doing. He will be more closely monitored from now on..
> *sigh*
>

blaming others always makes me feel better too. micromanagement is the way
out of that problem!

</snark>


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