From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7162 invoked from network); 30 Aug 1999 23:35:49 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 30 Aug 1999 23:35:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 20124 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 1999 23:32:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2534 Received: (qmail 19479 invoked from network); 30 Aug 1999 23:30:11 -0000 Sender: andrewg@hornet.am.qub.ac.uk Message-ID: <37CAF998.9472B4C@am.qub.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 22:37:28 +0100 From: Andrew Gallagher Reply-To: andrew.gallagher@earthling.net Organization: QUB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zsh Users Subject: Re: strange hanging behaviour References: <37B8819C.D1CDB154@earthling.net> <990816221844.ZM10077@candle.brasslantern.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Aug 16, 9:24pm, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > > Subject: strange hanging behaviour > > > > Anyone got any ideas? > > What's the machine's uptime ? There's a bug in ths system select() call > that kicks in after about 248 days, if I recall correctly. > > That bug is fixed in 3.0.6, you might consider upgrading. Well, I did upgrade, and it fixed the problem (thanks!), but it caused me a little bit of bother on the way. The ./configure script didn't find the function yp_all properly. It turns out that this is because it doesn't actually _look_ for yp_all - it looks for getdomainname and assumes yp_all is available once getdomainname is found. Unfortunately (for whatever reason) on my system getdomainname is found easily but yp_all has to be got from libnsl. I fixed the problem by hacking configure.in to insert an explicit search for yp_all (by simply changing instances of getdomainname to yp_all) et voila. Is this just my server's fault (which I could easily believe!) or does RH Linux do this to other people? -- Andrew Gallagher Dept. of Applied Maths Queen's University of Belfast http://members.tripod.com/~AndrewGallagher/id.html