NMBD crashing in 2.2.7a (and 2.2.6, 2.2.5)

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:19:48PM +0100, Edgar, Bob wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been having a problem with nmbd crashing multiple times per day.
> I suspect that the problem is caused by a shell script that tries to
> lookup the name for ws0000 to ws4000 to build a DNS reverse table.
> 
> It look something like this:
> 
> #!/bin/ksh
> typeset -Z4 i=0
> while (( $i < 4000 )); do
>     host=ws$i
>     nmblookup $host | awk -v host=$host '
> 		/^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+/ {
> 			printf("%s  IN  A   %s\n", host, $1)
> 		}
> 	'
>     (( i = i + 1 ))
> done
> 
> I have a level 10 debug log which I could send if it would be useful.
> 
> Let me know if there is any more information I can provide.

I think this is a bug we fixed for 2.2.8. Can you please
try with the updated version.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.