Re: Can anyone verify a core dump on /sbin/mingetty - FOLLOW UP - Getty also dumping core

From: Bill Weiss (houdiniat_private)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 00:36:41 PST

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    Scott Mackenzie(smackenzat_private)@Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:07:50PM +0000:
    > SEE MESSAGE :
    > 'Can anyone verify a core dump on /sbin/mingetty'
    > for the original post
    > 
    > The reason why there is no core dump from /sbin is because I didn't have 
    > write access - should have noticed that but there you go.
    > 
    > Ok, bit more information:
    > 
    > This problem is positive in the following systems:
    > * note there could and probably are more but I've only had word of the 
    > following systems being tested
    > 
    > Red-Hat 6.0 onwards (not tested any before) upto and including 7.2
    > Mandrake 8.0 2.4.3-20mdksmp (presumably similar to redhat here)
    > turbolinux 6.0
    > SCO unix 5.0.5
    > 
    > (this information was quickly gathered by several people; thanks everyone)
    
    Slackware 7.0 (maybe 8.0) uses agetty, which is not vunerable, as far as I can tell.
    It just spits out a usage error.
    
    -- Bill Weiss
    



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