I have recently upgraded my Amanda server to 2.4.4p1 on Redhat9.  All is
well except I occassionally get strange results and the following in my
/var/log/messages file.
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kernel: application bug: dumper(23061) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but 
calls wait()
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I found a reference to this in the amanda-users archive and a patch from
Jay Fenalson.  

I have tried to apply the patch with:  patch -p2 < dumper-patch
and patch -f -p2 <dumper-patch.  But I can not get the patch to complete
successfully.

My patch file is as follows:
----- amanda-2.4.3/server-src/dumper.c.orig 2003-02-11
21:10:03.000000000 -0500
+++ amanda-2.4.3/server-src/dumper.c 2003-02-11 21:10:27.000000000 -0500
@@ -254,7 +254,6 @@
error("can't get login name for my uid %ld", (long)getuid());
 
signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
- signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);
 
interactive = isatty(0);

I am in the server-src directory when I run the commands above.  

Reading the patch file does it mean I simply need to delete the line
dumper.c that has the SIGCHLD in it?  

But I guess I should figure out the correct patch command also?

Suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

TIA
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Jim Summers <jsummers AT cs.ou DOT edu>
University of Oklahoma - Computer Science