I think I've found the cause: conf_yacc.y declares the conftext variable with extern char* conftext;
However, the autogenerated conf_lex.c declares it as char conftext[YYLMAX]; If there's a syntax error in the config file (or aide tries to parse something that isn't a config file), then the following line (in conf_yacc.y) gets executed: error(0,"%i:%s:%s\n",conf_lineno,msg,conftext); As conftext is believed to be a pointer here, its contents (the text that caused the syntax error) are mistakenly treated as an address, usually leading to a segfault somewhere down in the string-formatting functions. The following one-line change works for me: --------------------------------------------- diff -ur aide-0.10/src/conf_yacc.y aide-0.10-fixed/src/conf_yacc.y --- aide-0.10/src/conf_yacc.y 2003-08-18 14:03:22.000000000 +0100 +++ aide-0.10-fixed/src/conf_yacc.y 2005-04-07 21:13:38.907968896 +0100 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ extern int conflex(); void conferror(const char*); -extern char* conftext; +extern char conftext[]; extern long conf_lineno; --------------------------------------------- Glyn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
