On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 03:42:09PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 4/8/2010 11:14 AM, Rowan Sylvester-Bradley wrote: >> I've created a little bash script to periodically get my IP number from >> whatismyip.com and log changes to a file. Here it is: > ><snip> > >> I'm trying to run it under Cygwin on Windows Vista Business SP1. It sort of >> works, but quite often (every few hours) it crashes. Here's an example: > ><snip> > >> Any idea what I may be doing wrong? >> >> This is probably a beginner's mistake, because this is the first time I've >> used Cygwin, and I'm a beginner in the whole Unix world... > >Well, wget shouldn't crash. But I tried running your script for a few >hours and didn't get a crash during my run. Perhaps you can make sure >you're up-to-date on all packages and try again?
Corinna noticed that there was a Cygwin memory leak that could be triggered by wget. I fixed this in CVS and the new DLL is now available at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Could the OP confirm/deny if this fixes the problem? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
