Segmentation Violation

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010, George Simon wrote:

>I've been asked the following question by one of our programmers that is
>experiencing difficulties with segmentation violations.

Segmentation violations by their very nature terminate the
program that does this.

If it's a cron job, the problem may well be an unset or invalid
TERM environment variable as I have see some software with poor
validity checking throw segmentation violations when there is no
matching terminal in the $TERMCAP data (e.g. Informix, and
perhaps FilePro does this as well).

When running cron jobs it's critical to insure that the
environment contains all the variables the programs need.  This
is particularly true of TERM when programs expect to be run in a
normal interactive session.

Bill
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