Re: Weather2.admin.niu.edu is back up, I think!

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Steve Ochani wrote:

> Is this patch publicly available? Or will it be incorporated into the next 
minor version?
> 

Hiya,

The patch only applies to ldm-users who are running pqsurf. The problem
was the processing of the short  NIL type bulletins that caused buffer
overflow. Of course, the patch will be included in the next minor version
of the LDM that will be released soon. 

To get the code:

The surf_split.c file is located in the ftp directory under 

pub/ldm5

To install the code:

Copy the surf_split.c into the src/pqsurf directory

type:

% cd src/pqsurf
% make 
% cp pqsurf ../../bin

stop/start the ldm.


For users of of the patch program the follow patch is included for
surf_split.c.


Robb...



Index: surf_split.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /upc/share/CVS/ldm5/pqsurf/surf_split.c,v
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -r1.36 surf_split.c
172,173c172,179
<       memcpy( header, datap, 48 );
<       header[48] = '\0';
---
>       /* inspect header as a string to see if to use PIL processing  */
>       if(infop->sz >  48 ) {
>               memcpy( header, datap, 48 );
>               header[48] = '\0';
>       } else {
>               memcpy( header, datap, infop->sz );
>               header[infop->sz] = '\0';
>       }

> 
> 
> On 7 Aug 2002 at 17:37, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > Weather2.admin.niu.edu, and my other machines, are running successfully on 
> > LDM 5.2 with a patch. We were getting memfault errors with the pqsurf 
> > program that brought down the entire LDM. I've now gone a full 24 hours on 
> > it with no problems, by far and away the longest period without it 
> > crashing. The patch is a success! I'll monitor tonight and each night 
> > through Friday, as well as this weekend, but it looks like this problem 
> > has been nipped in the bud. BTW, this only appears to be a RedHat thing, 
> > as it doesn't do this on Solaris. Glibc is a little pickier on Linux, I 
> > guess!
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Steve O.
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> 
> See updated NCC weather conditions at
> http://wr.psi.ncc.edu/~data
> 
> http://www.ncc.edu/dptpages/physci/ 
> 
> http://www.hitechcreations.com/
> Come fly the unfriendly skies
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                   WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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