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From: blaine@granite.sentex.net (Blaine M Barber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Perl Core Dump (bus error)
Date: 27 Nov 1996 00:27:40 GMT
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Blaine M Barber (blaine@granite.sentex.net) wrote:
: We have a newly installed FreeBSD server here, and the performance
: has been fantastic so far!

: One thing that I was concerned about when installing it at work was 
: something that I had trouble with at home, which was a great number
: of "bus error" core dumps.  I am now seeing this on the new machine, with
: any version of 'perl'.  Even an old BSD/386 binary that I have sitting 
: around dumps core on me.  

As it turns out, it was only perl v 5 that we were having a problem with.
I've linked /usr/local/bin/perl to a v 4 binary for the time being, and
it seems to be ok... still, this is a bit of a problem.

-Blaine