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From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Anne Jones dumps core
Message-ID: <1990Jul20.141802.5283@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 20 Jul 90 14:18:02 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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About a month ago, I posted an article about one user having problems
posting news.  This is Cnews on SunOS 4.0.3, and the core file said it
was /bin/sh.  Now, I have a clue form that user:

}Remember a couple weeks ago when I mentioned I had a problem with posting news
}articles?  I kept getting a core dump and you saw that sh was killed off
}somehow.  Well I got fed up enough to actually do something, and I found that
}the problem was in the environment variable CONNECT.  I was using that
}variable name for a script of mine, and inews evidently didn't like it.  I
}changed the variable name and voila!  I am now a net.poster once again!

This sounds like an environment problem involving Sun's /bin/sh.  The
particular variable he used is not used by Cnews.  Perhaps /bin/sh trashes
the environment when it does an export and the environment must expand?
Does anyone have any ideas on this?
-- 
-Gary Mills-             -University of Manitoba-             -Winnipeg-