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From: santiago@lerad.pa.dec.com (Ed Santiago)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: SLIP/Ultrix 4.1
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.212249.992@pa.dec.com>
Date: 7 Dec 90 21:22:49 GMT
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mra@srchtec.uucp (Michael Almond) writes:
>However, 'slattach' core dumps when I run it and no other messages appear.

Are there any empty lines in /etc/sliphosts?  Slattach doesn't check for
the null case and merrily looks into what it thinks is a real string.
A hash is sufficient to clear up this problem.

Handy hint:  if you dbx slattach, stop in main, and "a sldebug=1" then
continue, slattach will log interesting stuff thru syslog.

Ed Santiago                                      santiago@decwrl.dec.com
DEC Workstations Systems Engineering             ..decwrl!santiago