On Fri 24 Jul, Earl Hood wrote:
> On July 24, 1998 at 10:08, John Beranek wrote:
>
> > I've got a cron job that runs MHonArc at midnight, and I came in this
> > morning to see that MHonArc had done the following (and it's repeatable,
> > on 2 machines I tried).
> ...
> > starman: ~/ExternalWWW/kent-grads/archive : archive
> > Processing kent-grads archive
> > Bad free() ignored at /home/jberanek/mhonarc/lib/readmail.pl line 470, <FOPEN
> > 2> line 141.
> > Bad free() ignored at /home/jberanek/mhonarc/lib/readmail.pl line 470, <FOPEN
> > 2> line 141.
> > Bad free() ignored at /home/jberanek/mhonarc/lib/mhamain.pl line 941, <FOPEN2
> > > line 141.
> > Bus Error - core dumped
> > starman: ~/ExternalWWW/kent-grads/archive :
>
> Core dumps are normally a sign that something is wrong with perl.
> Since you did not mention what version of perl you are using, I would
> guess it is an older version of perl 5. What version are you using?
> If it is older that then the current release, I recommend upgrading.
Both machines I tried it on had Perl 5.001 patchlevel 1m
> BTW, you did not state what version of MHonArc you are using?
And MHonArc was 2.1
But I still can't see how it can be related to these versions being old,
because, as my second mail showed, it was the mail message with a MIME
multipart part which was an inline rfc822 message which was making
mhonarc fail.
> --ewh
John.
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