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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: 2.0.5 died. (Sig 11 on login) Date: 30 Nov 1995 16:38:13 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 39 Message-ID: <49kmlm$eis@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <MATHEZER.95Nov29084849@feisal.newera.ab.ca> <DItE9M.E2q@ritz.mordor.com> <SCOTTE.95Nov29111150@odie.center.uscs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, L. Scott Emmons (scotte@center.uscs.com) had the courage to say: : In article <DItE9M.E2q@ritz.mordor.com> ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes: : > Stephen Mathezer (mathezer@newera.ab.ca) wrote: : > : > : whenever it comes up, login will die with a sig 11 and sometimes cron will : > : as well while I am trying to log in. : > : > According to the FAQ on http://www.freebsd.org/, a sig 11 is often : > a sign of hardware problems. : Are you running NIS? I had this same problem when my "groups" NIS map : had long lines. I reported this as a bug, but never heard anything : back from the FreeBSD folks. : -Scott : -- I did some work on the getgrent NIS routines before 2.1 went out. It should now be much less sensitive to this kind of problem. Note that there is an inherent limitation in the size of an NIS map entry, which is 1024 bytes (the constraining variable is YPMAXRECORD in yp.x). The getgrent code also limits the length of an /etc/group line to 1024 bytes. There is also an upper limit in the maximum number of members per group, which is 200. (I think I said 1024 in an earlier post -- my mistake: I had NIS on the brain :). -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= License error: The license for this .sig file has expired. You must obtain a new license key before any more witty phrases will appear in this space. =============================================================================