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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!hunter.premier.net!news.lightlink.com!venus.os.com!news.os.com!craigs From: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What causes a bus error? Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:48:12 -0500 Organization: Orbit Systems Lines: 44 Message-ID: <craigs-ya023180001501972048120001@news.os.com> References: <craigs-ya023180001501970036510001@news.os.com> <5biv26$boh@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.os.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34102 In article <5biv26$boh@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) wrote: > > : What is a bus error and can I fix it? > > A bus error is usually an indication that your process attempted to > perform some kind of operation on a memory location that it wasn't allowed > to do. An example would be if you mmap()'ed a page of memory, used > mprotect() to set it read-only, and then tried to write to it. > When I first saw it I thought I was having a bus error as in motherboard bus. Glad it's only software. > There may be some fixes in the BSDI compatibility, but you may have > trouble even up to 2.2. However, the other person I know who had this > problem contacted the people who produce Post.Orifice^H^H^H^H^H^H^HOffice > and explained his plight to them, and they provided him with an 'alpha > quality' release of the package compiled for FreeBSD. You might try > asking them to let you have a copy. > Thanks, I'll give them a call. > > PS: Given the choice, I'd rather use sendmail. :) > I would use sendmail if I could get it to work with quotas and I was sure about its safety. Actually, it will work with quotas but not gracefully. It seems to just dump an error if the user's mbox fills up. I'm also looking a qmail which is supposed to be secure and can do everything but uucp (I've been told). Thanks, Craig -- THIS TAG NOT TO BE REMOVED UNDER PENALTY OF LAW EXCEPT BY THE CONSUMER