On 20030128 (Tue) at 1335:18 +0100, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> Greg Louis wrote:
>
> >Instrumenting src/smtp_out.c with more debug_printf calls shows it's
> >getservbyname() that's segfaulting.
>
> The getservbyname call itself?
>
> Check this entro from the FAQ
> <quote>
> Q0062: When I try to start an Exim daemon it crashes. I ran a debugger
> and discovered that the crash is happening in the function
> getservbyname().
> What's going on?
>
> A0062: What have you got in the file /etc/nsswitch.conf? If it contains
> this line:
>
> services: db files
>
> try removing the "db". (Your system is trying to look in some
> kind of database before searching the file /etc/services.)
> </quote>
Removing the db from that line did solve the problem. (I saw that
entry but that was yesterday -- didn't spring to mind again this
morning when I found out I too had a getservbyname() issue :(
Curious: this works fine without any change to /etc/nsswitch.conf:
#include <netdb.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
struct servent *p;
int *port;
p=getservbyname("smtp","tcp");
*port=ntohs(p->s_port);
printf("Got port %d for service %s/%s\n", *port,
p->s_name, p->s_proto);
exit(0);
}
# gcc -O -o testservent testservent.c
# testservent
Got port 25 for service smtp/tcp
Anyway, thanks very much indeed for the help!
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