beacon 1.3 died

[Andrew Daviel <advax@triumf.ca>]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Mitch Kutzko wrote:

> Hi, everyone -- I changed the MOTD for the 1.1 Beacon over a week ago to
> let you all know that the 1.1 Beacon was being retired on 9/7/05
> (tomorrow!), and that you'll need to update your installations to the new
> 1.3 version of the Beacon.

I've been on vacation ... I installed 1.3 at 17:47 yesterday and at
07:37 PDT this morning it died, with the following message on STDERR:

  Use of uninitialized value in scalar chop at /usr/local/bin/beacon line
    1977.
  Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
    /usr/local/bin/beacon line 1998.
  perl: rtp.c:652: delete_source: Assertion `s != ((void *)0)' failed.

I figure that somehow a source name or address got set to void and
beacon committed suicide in shame  :-)

I just restarted it before I thought to save the locally generated files;
sorry.

running under perl v5.8.0 on Linux 2.4.20-31; compiled with gcc 3.2.2,
libc.so.6.
As before with 1.1, I'm running it as myself, rather than root or
using the change-uid scheme.

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Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
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