[Alpine-info] Solaris 8 "Alarm Clock" error

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:


> Related question then: Was there a patch posted that fixed the "hang 

> after a pipe" problem, that didn't involve --without-debug 

> --without-pthreads ?

>

> I've been running a version all day for myself without the above 

> options, and haven't seen the "Alarm Clock" message. I just can't pipe, 

> which is easy for me but not necessarily for my users. I recall such a 

> patch, I recall SAVING such a patch, and now I can't find it.


I am quite sure that it was fixed in the version of Alpine 2.0 that I got 
for Solaris 8 SPARC from Sunfreeware:

http://www.sunfreeware.com/

It's probably available for the other Solaris versions too.



>> (Now I am happily using Ubuntu instead and I dumped the old Solaris box 

>> -- a once-upon-a-time $10K machine now essentially worthless.  I know 

>> that doesn't help you much!)

>

> This is a multi-user shell server used here by the die-hard customers 

> who want their shell access. It's slated for upgrade but that takes 

> time, and I would like to get migrate to mix format mailboxes before 

> then.


Right.  It took me forever to get around to it.

Mike