[1395] in Moira
Re: zephyr.gen shouldn't coredump
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Mar 6 17:59:03 2000
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 05 Mar 2000 02:27:19 EST."
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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:58:53 -0500
> This fixes the problem that caused zephyr.gen to coredump
> earlier this evening. The problem was dbck eating the string
> *.*@ATHENA.MIT.EDU from the strings table; dbck will need to be fixed to
> know about the zephyr table.
I think that this is a fairly serious error condition and the dcm
should fail (gracefully, not core-dumpily) rather than blithely
creating acls wiht missing entries. Certainly, the losing the
particular string above would make a serious mess out of the acl's
installed on the zephyr servers.
Jonathon
