AW: [IRCServices Coding] Services Killing Unreal...

[Yusuf Iskenderoglu]

Hello;

I would suggest contacting Unreal coders also. 
It looks like that services is sending a line, where unreal does expect
more parameteres than recevied. It probably goes through the code and
because of the missing parameter, it cores. (NULL pointer
reference)

You either have a coredump of the ircd, of which a backtrace would show
up which line was in a matter of being parsed, or you have the
services.log and you might see, if run with -debug, which was the last
line services sent, before the ircd cored.

With the help of a small fix in this case, Unreal will solve the problem
in their next beta version. But if you do not contact them...

You must also admit, that ircservices is not the source of the problem,
but the wrong coding in unreal ircd. This means, even if ircservices
will find a way not to cause this, the problem with the ircd would
persist. There are other ways (like RAW) which can be used to cause the
core. Because in general, no irc protocol message should lead into a
segfaulting ircd.

So again, you also ought to contact Unreal coders, so that they can 
solve the problem for the next beta version.

Regards;
yusuf

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> Von: ircservices-coding-admin at ircservices.za.net 
> [mailto:ircservices-coding-admin at ircservices.za.net] Im 
> Auftrag von Craig McLure
> Gesendet: Samstag, 16. März 2002 02:37
> An: ircservices-coding at ircservices.za.net
> Betreff: [IRCServices Coding] Services Killing Unreal...
> 
> 
> I dunno if this prob has been delt with b4.. i'm testing 
> beta24, downloaded 
> about an hour ago.. got it connected to my Unreal3.2-beta7 
> server, worked a 
> dream.. found something i hadnt configured right, did an 
> operserv shutdown.. 
> and b000m the IRCd dies. AFAIK its not segfaulting, or giving 
> a valid reason 
> for the shutdown.. it just does. I thought i would report 
> this here instead 
> of to the Unreal ppl, cause Services are causeing the prob :) 
> ne help appreaciated!
> 
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