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Re: unknown error on 10.3.9 boot: "SystemStarter: Malformatted parameters file"
by Dale Walsh 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com Mta-interface: amavisd-new-2.3.1-rc3-E (2005-05-06) at daleenterprise.com On Aug 04, 2005, at 08:18 PM, OpenMacNews wrote: hi, i've installed DansGuardian on an OSX 10.3.9 box. i've created the /Library/StartupItems for it ... DansGuardian/DansGuardian DansGuardian/StartupParameters.plist launches/operates as expected from cmd-line. on boot, however, it never starts. syslog shows only one related item: checking in StartupParaneters.plist, i have ONLY: which is virtually identical to my other startup items' ... where the stanza: any ideas? thx, I just installed it and I'm not experiencing any startup issues. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… Aug 4 16:49:23 localhost SystemStarter: Malformatted parameters file /Library/StartupItems/DansGuardian/StartupParameters.plist. % cat /Library/StartupItems/DansGuardian/StartupParameters.plist { Description = "DansGuardian Content Filter"; Provides = ("ContentFilter"); Requires = ("Disks","Resolver","Network","Network Time","ProxyServer"); OrderPreference = "Last"; { start = "Starting DansGuardian"; stop = "Stopping DansGuardian"; restart = "Restarting DansGuardian"; }; } and, "ProxyServer" is provided by Squid, which launches OK prior to the DansGuardian failed attempt: ... Aug 4 16:41:22 localhost SystemStarter: Starting SQUID PROXY server ... Aug 4 16:41:25 localhost squid[352]: Squid Parent: child process 354 started ... googling on "Malformatted parameters file" brings up virtually nothing other than: <http://darwinsource.opendarwin.org/10.3/Startup-177/SystemStarter/ StartupItems.c> ... if (StartupItemValidate(aConfig)) { CFStringRef aBundlePathString = CFStringCreateWithCString(NULL, aBundlePath, kCFStringEncodingUTF8); CFNumberRef aDomainNumber = CFNumberCreate(NULL, kCFNumberCFIndexType, &aDomainIndex); CFDictionarySetValue(aConfig, kBundlePathKey, aBundlePathString); CFDictionarySetValue(aConfig, kDomainKey, aDomainNumber); CFRelease(aDomainNumber); SpecialCasesStartupItemHandler(aConfig); CFArrayAppendValue(anItemList, aConfig); CFRelease(aBundlePathString); } else { error(CFSTR("Malformatted parameters file %s.\n"), aConfigFile); } ... looks like the 'culprit', but i have no idea what's failing, and further -- why it's only happening for THIS .plist ... richard You're plist is missing something, here's my plist compare it against yours. { Description = "DansGuardian Content Filter"; Provides = ("ContentFilter"); Requires = ("Resolver", "Disks", "Network", "Network Time", "ProxyServer"); OrderPreference = "Last"; Messages = { start = "Starting DansGuardian"; stop = "Stopping DansGuardian"; restart = "Restarting DansGuardian"; }; } This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: unknown error on 10.3.9 boot: "SystemStarter: Malformatted parameters file"
by Shantonu Sen 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

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unknown error on 10.3.9 boot: "SystemStarter: Malformatted parameters file"
by OpenMacNews 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com hi, i've installed DansGuardian on an OSX 10.3.9 box. i've created the /Library/StartupItems for it ... DansGuardian/DansGuardian DansGuardian/StartupParameters.plist launches/operates as expected from cmd-line. on boot, however, it never starts. syslog shows only one related item: checking in StartupParaneters.plist, i have ONLY: which is virtually identical to my other startup items' ... ... Aug 4 16:41:22 localhost SystemStarter: Starting SQUID PROXY server ... Aug 4 16:41:25 localhost squid[352]: Squid Parent: child process 354 started ... <http://darwinsource.opendarwin.org/10.3/Startup-177/SystemStarter/StartupIt…> where the stanza: ... if (StartupItemValidate(aConfig)) { CFStringRef aBundlePathString = CFStringCreateWithCString(NULL, aBundlePath, kCFStringEncodingUTF8); CFNumberRef aDomainNumber = CFNumberCreate(NULL, kCFNumberCFIndexType, &aDomainIndex); CFDictionarySetValue(aConfig, kBundlePathKey, aBundlePathString); CFDictionarySetValue(aConfig, kDomainKey, aDomainNumber); CFRelease(aDomainNumber); SpecialCasesStartupItemHandler(aConfig); CFArrayAppendValue(anItemList, aConfig); CFRelease(aBundlePathString); } else { error(CFSTR("Malformatted parameters file %s.\n"), aConfigFile); } ... any ideas? thx, richard _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… Aug 4 16:49:23 localhost SystemStarter: Malformatted parameters file /Library/StartupItems/DansGuardian/StartupParameters.plist. % cat /Library/StartupItems/DansGuardian/StartupParameters.plist { Description = "DansGuardian Content Filter"; Provides = ("ContentFilter"); Requires = ("Disks","Resolver","Network","Network Time","ProxyServer"); OrderPreference = "Last"; { start = "Starting DansGuardian"; stop = "Stopping DansGuardian"; restart = "Restarting DansGuardian"; }; } and, "ProxyServer" is provided by Squid, which launches OK prior to the DansGuardian failed attempt: googling on "Malformatted parameters file" brings up virtually nothing other than: looks like the 'culprit', but i have no idea what's failing, and further -- why it's only happening for THIS .plist ... This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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finding local shares
by Philip D. Wasson 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com TIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip D. Wasson pwasson at maned dot com Software Engineer Managing Editor Inc. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… I'm trying to figure out how to generate a list of local shares (exports, whatever). More precisely, given the share name someone would see from a different machine, and knowing the share is from the machine I'm running on, how do I find the path to that directory? I thought I had it figured out, using a combination of property lists and NetInfo (./config/SharePoints, ./users/<username>/sharedDir), but now I find that in 10.3 and later I can't use NetInfo. Is that information now accessed via Open Directory? I don't suppose anyone has done something like this already and could point me at some sample code? (I guess anything that reads something that is in NetInfo the new way would be extremely helpful.) This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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How can my daemon detect that machine is restarted
by Martin Bestmann 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi, Here is my code that registers for the notification. I do get kIOMessageCanSystemSleep when the system is put to sleep. Is there a better way to find out if the machine is restarted? Thanks, Martin _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… I need to find out if my daemon was launched after a restart or during the normal install. Basically I need to now if a machine was restarted. I thought IORegisterForSystemPower would do this but I do not get the kIOMessageSystemWillRestart message. gRootPort=IORegisterForSystemPower (0,&notify,SystemPowerChangedCallback,&anIterator); if (gRootPort) CFRunLoopAddSource(CFRunLoopGetCurrent (),IONotificationPortGetRunLoopSource(notify),kCFRunLoopDefaultMode); It could be that my daemon gets killed before I get the kIOMessageSystemWillRestart message. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: config file changes, etc.
by plumber 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com :) export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/local/man /etc/httpd/http.conf this is the first and the last... Best Regards -----BEGIN PLUMBER CODE BLOCK----- Version: 1.0 ¬ | | > Regards Plumber || GNU Darwin. ¬ \\\ plumber.gnu-darwin.org ¬ ¬ | | > OOP --\///\ (0)=(0) Darwin/Power Mac G4. ¬ | | > ( __ò ó__ ) The best for Fede ¬ \\\ federicafontana.it ¬ ------END PLUMBER CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GMU/S d+@ s: a- K+++++ PGP++++ K---- dpu s--:-- C++++ C-- B L X U++++ P+++ C-- P! L--- E+++ W+++ P! L--- N+++ o-- K+++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Plain, Loving, Useful, Mischievous, Brutal, Explosive, Responsible _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… Is there somewhere some description of a) changes in configuration files from one release to the next? b) differences in configuration file usage from what I'd find in antique unix documentation (or experience) and/or linux documentation? For instance, I'm familiar with ~/public_html but here it's ~/Sites :) Basically, I'd like to be pro-active rather than reactive in these things -- I hate tripping over something and then having to go looking for the cause, often without any real clue. "No manual entry" in my ManOpen window, for instance, is the first clue about manpath going away ... I"It's making my eyes better. And it's legal. I could walk up to the President and blow smoke in his stupid monkey face, and he'd just have to sit there groovin' on it!" Homer J Simpson, Springfield, Illinois, Massachusetts nobody knows :) This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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config file changes, etc.
by Joe Davison 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com I presume there's some documentation I'm unaware of, please point to it. In order to RTFM, you gotta find TFM. joe _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… I'd found /etc/manpath.config and modified it to be aware of my own and fink's manpages in previous releases of MacOSX. Then I upgraded to Tiger and found man wasn't working for me, because manpath.config has gone away. Eventually I discovered /usr/share/misc/man.conf, so I presume I can get back to where I was. Is there somewhere some description of a) changes in configuration files from one release to the next? b) differences in configuration file usage from what I'd find in antique unix documentation (or experience) and/or linux documentation? For instance, I'm familiar with ~/public_html but here it's ~/Sites Basically, I'd like to be pro-active rather than reactive in these things -- I hate tripping over something and then having to go looking for the cause, often without any real clue. "No manual entry" in my ManOpen window, for instance, is the first clue about manpath going away ... This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: getpwuid memory leak?!?
by Martin Bestmann 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com On 04.08.2005, at 02:08, Matt Watson wrote: On Aug 3, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Martin Bestmann wrote: Are you joining or detaching your threads? We are joining the threads. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… I could verify that the memory in the same thread gets recycled if I call getpwuid but I still have the memory allocated after my thread terminates. And yes we are seeing leaks after the threads is gone. The leaks are coming from the getpwuid call. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: getpwuid memory leak?!?
by Matt Watson 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Aug 3, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Martin Bestmann wrote: Are you joining or detaching your threads? matt. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… I could verify that the memory in the same thread gets recycled if I call getpwuid but I still have the memory allocated after my thread terminates. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: getpwuid memory leak?!?
by Marc Majka 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com -- Marc Majka On 3 Aug, 2005, at 15:13, Martin Bestmann wrote: On 03.08.2005, at 23:40, Marc Majka wrote: _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… There's a destructor function associated with the thread-specific memory that is responsible for cleaning up when the thread exits. See the pthread_exit(3) man page. Each of the Libinfo routines attaches an appropriate destructor function, so the memory is not supposed to leak when the thread exits. If you are seeing a memory leak after a thread exits, let me know and I'll dig into it. Does this also mean when the thread terminates that the memory gets recycled. I could verify that the memory in the same thread gets recycled if I call getpwuid but I still have the memory allocated after my thread terminates. The Mac OS X implementations of a number of routines found in libSystem, including getpwnam and getpwuid, have been modified to be thread-safe. Rather than returning a pointer to a static data structure, these routines allocate a structure for the returned value that is stored in thread-specific memory. The memory is recycled (by each thread) every time you make a call to one of these routines. That allows you to use these APIs safely in multi- threaded applications. The specific routines in the Libinfo project (see Libinfo/ lookup.subproj/lu_*.c) that maintain thread-specific memory for results are: - alias_getbyname alias_getent alias_setent alias_endent - bootp_getbyether bootp_getbyip - bootparams_getbyname bootparams_getent bootparams_setent bootparams_endent - getfsbyname getfsspec getfsfile getfsent setfsent endfsent - initgroups getgrnam getgrgid getgrent setgrent endgrent - gethostbyaddr gethostbyname gethostbyname2 gethostent sethostent endhostent - getipnodebyname getipnodebyaddr - innetgr getnetgrent setnetgrent endnetgrent - getnetbyaddr getnetbyname getnetent setnetent endnetent - prdb_getbyname prdb_get prdb_set prdb_end - getprotobyname getprotobynumber getprotoent setprotoent endprotoent - getrpcbyname getrpcbynumber getrpcent setrpcent endrpcent - getservbyport getservbyname getservent setservent endservent - getpwnam getpwuid getpwent setpwent endpwent This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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