Re: Possible breakage in 2.6.16?

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Greetings;
>
> Always curious as to what sort of information can be extracted from the
> tools linux gives us, I've discovered that netstat, from the
>
> net-tools-1.60-25.1 rpm
>
> no longer functions for anything as even a 'netstat --version' takes the
> curser to the upper left corner of the screen and hangs till ctl+c'd.
>
> The only evidence of its execution is a steady, about 2 per second,
> increase in the number of processes running as reported by gkrellm, all
> of which go away when I ctl+c netstat itself.
>
> I'm running 2.6.16 self configured here.
>
> Is this a known problem because my net-tools rpm is old?  Or because
> 2.6.16 broke it?

strace netstat --version 2>info.txt
^C

Then read info.txt and see what it called that doesn't return.

>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
> People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
> 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
> stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
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> -

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.15.4 on an i686 machine (5589.42 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction, book release in April.
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