SIGSEGV on broken status.sav files

[Andreas Ericsson]

Ethan Galstad wrote:
> Any chance you can send me a copy of your retention file when it does 
> segfault?  It will help in tracking down the problem.  Also, what 
> version are you running when this happens?
> 

Sorry, but I can't seem to find it (panic deletion in preparation for 
movie watching on a sadly long train trip). I tried reproducing it with 
a manufactured flawed retention file, but that didn't work.

I'll have a garbgen randomize it and see what happens.

> On 24 Mar 2005 at 14:50, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> 
>>It appears Nagios sigsegv's at start-time if the state retention file
>>(status.sav) is broken.
>>
>>It appears to happen sort of irregularly and I can't quite make out
>>when. Just thought I'd alert anyone doing a code audit of this issue.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Ethan Galstad,
> Nagios Developer
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