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From: jcaron@pressimage.net (Jacques Caron)
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Subject: Re: INN sharedactive.patch problems with FreeBSD 2.0.5R
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 21:50:59 +0200
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In article <410j0i$lr1@xymox.dsw.com>, pete@inquo.net (Pete Kruckenberg) wrote:

>I put inn1.4unoff-2 on my FreeBSD 2.0.5R machine last night, and 
>everything worked but the patch for nnrpd that allows it to use shared 
>memory to share the active file. Whenever nnrpd would be activated, it 
>would die with a signal 12 (bad argument to system call).
>
>Does anyone have nnrpd running with this patch on FreeBSD (or any other 
>BSD4.4-based system)? Anyone have any ideas what might be causing this 
>problem? What's the best/easiest way to debug a daemon like this?

It might be obvious, but well, I'll ask anyway...

Did you activate the SYSVSHM and SYSVSEM options when building your kernel?

Hope that helps,

Jacques.

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