[users] Re: sarg-2.2.3.1-1.el5.rf *** buffer overflow detected ***

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

Alain Reguera Delgado wrote:
> On 3/26/08, Alain Reguera Delgado <alain.reguera at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Could you help interpret/fix, the following sarg error ? The daily and
>> weekly reports do work normally but monthly don't. I am using CentOS
>> 5.
>>
>> ----
>> [root at orion cron.monthly]# ./sarg
>> *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/bin/sarg terminated
> ...
>> Any idea ?
> 
> well ... I imaging that the amount of info to parse on /var/log/squid/
> is beyond the capacity of my server :(.

no, it's probably not a question of server capacity (adding more RAM 
probably won't solve anything), since it says "buffer overflow", not "no 
more memory".
this looks like a software bug in sarg, you might want to take it upstream.

cheers,
Nicolas