On Sat, 25 Nov 1995, Patrick Stecker wrote: > Hmm, I have a few questions in regarding to FreeBSD. I have been > running a CircleMUD mud for a little over a year and a half (or has it been > 2 years). And I've had no problems with running it on a Linux box. > However, I tried running it on a FreeBSD site and it seems the crypt() > function does not work. I had to change the CRYPT macro so it would not use > crypt (similar to that in 3.0 -- -DNOCRYPT). Then it works just fine, but > the passwords are not encrypted. Then theres the matter of memory problems. > It seems to crash randomly (i.e., if you type in a command, it will get sent > to a 'null' pointer which doesn't exist, but its there). Using GDB I found > that memory was being thrashed somehow, and I was getting "Address out of > bounds" all over the place. I tried adding a -lmalloc, but doesn't seem to > help. I compile it with the: > -c -g -O2 -Wall flags. Is there something I'm missing? I don't think I've I think you souldnt put the -g (debug flag) and -O2 (optimize flag 2) .Because if you put -O2 then -g flag is not used. > seen anyone on this list complain about not being able to run it on a > FreeBSD. In fact, my first site I ran it on was a FreeBSD, and I didn't > have any problems. I'm sure its something silly that I've missed and would > appreciate any help that can be offered. > > Thank you > > Patrick > #=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-# > | | > | Thought of the week: | > | Don't you think they should repair the London Bridge? | > | It keeps falling down! | > | | > #-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=# > > Force be with you! R. Engur Pisirici
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