Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: cnews checkgroups processing core-dumps (SIGSEGV)
Message-ID: <1990Jul20.154238.733@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul18.101929.23679@ciba-geigy.ch> <1990Jul18.162721.951@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Jul19.075348.2504@ciba-geigy.ch>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 90 15:42:38 GMT

In article <1990Jul19.075348.2504@ciba-geigy.ch> whna@ciba-geigy.ch (Heinz Naef) writes:
>Running the following command causes the same crash as if relaynews would have
>spawned the checkgroups script (login shell is /bin/ksh, too):
>	/usr/lib/news> (PATH=$NEWSCTL/bin:$NEWSBIN/ctl;checkgroups </usr/spool/news/control/6073; echo "exit code $?")
> ...
>However, running the following command works (login shell is /bin/ksh, too):
>	/usr/lib/news> (PATH=$NEWSCTL/bin:$NEWSBIN/ctl;checkgroups </usr/spool/news/control/6073; /bin/echo "exit code $?")
>Would you agree that there must have something happened to the shell environment
>the checkgroups script is running in? ...

Ouch.  Something is really fouling up somewhere in your shell.  No idea
what it could be.
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