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From: paulz@olivetti.nl (Paul van der Zwan)
Subject: Little bug in timed.c (FreeBSD 1.1 GAMMA)
Message-ID: <1994Apr24.124646.2556@olivetti.nl>
Organization: Olivetti Nederland B.V.
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 12:46:46 GMT
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I think I've found a little bug in timed.c, I got the following message:
timed[33]: bind: Can't assign requested address
This happened only when timed was started from /etc/rc, when I started it
manually it ran fine.
The following patch fixed it for me:
$ diff -c timed.c.BAK timed.c
*** timed.c.BAK Sun Apr 24 14:34:26 1994
--- timed.c Sun Apr 24 14:38:04 1994
***************
*** 131,136 ****
--- 131,137 ----
trace = OFF;
nflag = OFF;
iflag = OFF;
+ bzero((void *)&server,sizeof(server));
openlog("timed", LOG_CONS|LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
if (getuid() != 0) {
--
Paul van der Zwan paulz@olivetti.nl
Olivetti Nederland B.V. paulzn@olivetti.nl (NeXT-mail)