[ARGUS] BSD argus/Linux ra problems?

[slif at bellsouth.net]

Michael, I posted a server patch recently that moved
an FDCLEAR beyond an else block that framed an EINTR test.
You might give that a try.
-Mike Slifcak

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:36:04PM -0800, Michael Sanderson wrote:
> Carter Bullard wrote:
> > Hey Michael,
> >   So what kind of problems are you having?
> > Carter
> 
> I have an OpenBSD 3.6 box running argus 2.0.6.fixes.1.  I have a Fedora 
> Core2 box running argus-clients 2.0.6.fixes.1.  When I connect from Fedora 
> with 'ra -S argus_host -w /var/tmp/data', ra starts up, forks/execs and the 
> child exits very quickly without writing any data.  Argus daemon on OpenBSD 
> reports that the client is done.  If I run this as 'strace ra -S argus_host 
> -w /var/tmp/data', ra continues to run and collect/write data.
> 
> I wasn't directly involved in the build of the box, but my understanding is 
> that no special patches have been applied to the kernel source.  Any buffer 
> issues that Peter has previously posted about that are still outstanding in 
> the BSD kernel are still there.  However, I don't believe that this 
> particular problem has anything to do with that.
> 
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