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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:38:32 -0600
From:      "Jason Young" <jyoung@accessus.net>
To:        "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk>, "Kris Kennaway" <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: libc.so.4 not found
Message-ID:  <KMEMKJDAFDCLDFALNGJOIEFJDAAA.jyoung@accessus.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011292320400.22098-100000@arnold.neland.dk>

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It's a normal part of PHK malloc, the standard FreeBSD malloc. It's for
turning on certain debugging options. PHK used a cute trick with symlinks to
avoid having to actually open a configuration file. See malloc(3).

Jason Young
Access US Chief Network Engineer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Leif Neland
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 4:23 PM
> To: Kris Kennaway
> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: libc.so.4 not found
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 10:28:53PM +0100, Leif Neland wrote:
> > > Could this be the reason why Avp (virusscanner) for FreeBSD
> 4X just dumps
> > > core on Fbsd current?
> > > It works on a Fbsd stable.
> >
> > Could be malloc.conf defaults. i.e. a bug in avp triggered by the
> > debugging /etc/malloc.conf settings in -current.
> >
> > Kris
> >
> A truss shows Avp tries to open /etc/malloc.conf, but I have no such file
> on any of my systems, stable or current.
>
> But Avp continues after this failure.
>
> Do I need /etc/malloc.conf? Where do I find one?
>
> Leif
>
>
>
>
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