Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!cs.tcd.ie!tcdmath!mlloyd
From: mlloyd@maths.tcd.ie (Michael Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Gatekeeper bug
Summary: What went wrong?
Message-ID: <241@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 18 Jan 89 15:11:38 GMT
References: <326@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk>
Reply-To: mlloyd@maths.tcd.ie (Michael Lloyd)
Organization: Maths Dept., Trinity College, Dublin
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In article <326@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@s1.UUCP (Richard Kennaway) writes:
>
>After checking for viruses, I installed the Gatekeeper INIT/cdev recently
>posted to comp.binaries.mac.  When I ran the cdev in the Control Panel,
>the Mac crashed on closing the Control Panel.  It then refused to reboot
>from that system, even after removing Gatekeeper and its log file from
>the system folder.  I eventually found that the System file had been
>corrupted (virus rx reported logical end of file encountered).
>
>Setup: MacPlus, System 4.3, MultiFinder 1.0, Finder 6.0B1.  INITs: Facade,
>JClock31.
>
> [some comment deleted]
>-- 
>Richard Kennaway                SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
>uucp:	...mcvax!ukc!uea-sys!jrk	Janet:	kennaway@uk.ac.uea.sys

We have had the same problem - crash on closing Control Panel.
Virus Rx reported a logical EOF in _GATEKEEPER_, NOT in the system, and
we had no problem about not being able to reboot.

This occured during a virus outbreak - one possible culprit.
However, I would hazard a guess at a misposting - including a
misplaced EOF. Is this possible?

Setup: MacPlus, sys 4.3,  finder 6.0, cdevs Quickeys & Staircase, 
init Shield (from Symantec)

I was very impressed with the GateKeeper concept - if this can be
sorted out, I would be happy to use it.

So, any gurus with solutions?

Mike.

-- 
Mike Lloyd, Dept of Statistics, |"Does anyone understand what is happening? ..
Trinity College, Dublin,        |  They tell me this is living -
Ireland.                        |   They tell me this is LIFE!"
(mlloyd@maths.tcd.ie)           | - Michael Been, of "The Call"