argus-2.0.4 does after a couple of days

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Christian,
   Sorry for the delay in responding, I've been on vacation.
Please try argus-2.0.5.beta.x to see if you still have your
dump problems.  You're the first to indicate a problem with
2.0.4, and 2.0.5 does solve a few problems relating to libraries,
so please do give that a run.  If you are having problems with
2.0.5.beta, please do this in the argus root directory:

  % touch .devel
  % make clobber
  % ./configure
  % make

This will turn on gdb support, and we can find out what
the real issue is with your problem.

ftp://qosient.com/dev/argus-2.0/argus-2.0.5.beta.5.tar.gz

Carter

Carter Bullard
QoSient, LLC
300 E. 56th Street, Suite 18K
New York, New York  10022

carter at qosient.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu 
> [mailto:owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Christian Martin
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 6:58 AM
> To: argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: argus-2.0.4 does after a couple of days
> 
> 
> Hello, kind people,
> 
> I'm running argus 2.0.3 on a machine with a 2.4 Linux kernel. 
>  There's a
> fair amount of traffic on the network (argus is pumping out 
> about 800Mb a
> day, uncompressed), but it does the job admirably.  So far, 
> so good.  I
> recently upgraded to 2.0.4, which worked fine for a couple of 
> days and then
> fell over with no explanation.  It restarted fine, but the 
> same thing always
> happened - it would survive for anything between one and 
> three days before
> bombing out.  I've switched back to 2.0.3 and the problems have gone.
> Unfortunately, the environment isn't really suited to 
> debugging (the machine
> is in a locked room some distance from my office, and there's so much
> activity that logging over SSH would be a bit crazy).
> 
> I was wondering if anyone else has experienced problems of 
> this nature, and
> if there may be any way to get to the bottom of them without 
> '-D 8'.  Both
> 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 were installed from the RPM because it was 
> easiest at the
> time.
> 
> Incidentally, for anyone who is thinking of trying it, I've been
> successfully running ra (2.0.1) as a persistent daemon on a 
> Linux (debian,
> 2.2 kernel) box for over six months now - it has written hundreds of
> gigabytes of logs with seemingly no memory problems.
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Christian Martin
> 
> --
> Christian Martin
> IT Department
> Jesus College, Cambridge
> e-mail: c.martin at jesus.cam.ac.uk
> telephone: 01223-(7)64101
> 
> 
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