beacon 0.9.58 dies after a while - broken pipe?

[Gideon Goldman <ggoldm2@uic.edu>]

Hi,

I'm running a fresh install of beacon version 0.9.58 and after running it
for a while (not sure exactly how long) it seems to give up. This has
occurred only twice so far, once without any text record of the output (I
ran it in the background and closed the terminal window, came back in
the morning and found it dead). The second time my output was as follows:

bash$ ./start_beacon  (note: this is a dummy shell script in the top level
of the beacon install dir that just executes ./src/beacon)

Getting configuration information from file "/usr/etc/beacon.conf"
Sending TCP unicast reports to beacon.ncsa.uiuc.edu:10004.

Starting Beacon "0.9.58 RC1 - 2" as "agtech" on Thu Jul 22 12:10:00 2004.
This host is "holtzer.evl.uic.edu", ssrc = 0x33c60155, PID = 26046.
Multicast Group = 233.4.200.23, Port 10002, TTL = 127.  OS = "linux"

Go to http://beacon.ncsa.uiuc.edu to see this Beacon's output

.
. (later)
.

./start_beacon: line 6: 26046 Broken pipe          ./src/beacon

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end of output

Thanks in advance!

Gideon