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Article #70Re: INN 1.5.1sec2 dies daily
From: Craig Dewick
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 00:00
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In <63nsgg$kk1$1@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
>You are fortunate; I have yet to find any version of INN 1.5 with security
>patches applied that does not frequently dump core on Solaris. Mine dies
>several times a day. I have not had time to try and debug it yet, so I
>just wrote a kludgy perl script that detects when it has died and restarts
>it. If anyone has a version of INN that does not have the security holes
>that have been widely exploited that is stable on Solaris, I would greatly
>appreciate hearing about it.
I'm using Dave Barr's inn-1.5.2 package on my server machine which runs
SunOS 5.5.1, and it hasn't failed once since it was installed. The only
problems are running out of disk space for the news spool, but that's
totally unrelated to Inn.
Regards,
Craig.
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