Re: IPTraf crashes on 2.4.x kernels?

[Gerard Paul Java <riker@seul.org>]

Hi Chris,

Glad to know.  However I'm grateful for your report.  It's still bad form 
to just allow a segfault when software should properly handle unexpected 
conditions, no matter how rare.

On Mon, 6 May 2002, WolfWings wrote:

> On Mon, 6 May 2002, Gerard Paul Java wrote:
> 
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > The only case where the problem occured on my system was when I emptied my
> > /proc/dev/net file of data (by shutting down all interfaces).  Please
> > verify that your /proc/net/dev file is intact or that you have compiled in
> > /proc filesystem support into your kernel.  I'm correcting the software to
> > better respond to such a condition though.
> 
> Actually... that helped. Turns out I'd had a line in a script I was
> working on still commented out, between compiling IPTraf and rebooting to
> flush everything before testing it for the first time, since it's my
> development box. I'd been converting the scripts over from ifconfig/route
> to entirely pure IPRoute2, and hadn't noticed a minor error:
> 
> ip addr add lo 127.0.0.1
> 
> should have been
> 
> ip addr add dev lo 127.0.0.1
> 
> etc, etc, etc. So... my bad.
> But thanks for pointing out what was wrong. :-)
> 
>