[pkg-bacula-devel] [Bacula Bug Reports 0002528]: bacula-fd crashes with segfault when trying to bind to a port that isn't free

[Carsten Leonhardt]

Hi Kern,

> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>  (0008174) kern (administrator) - 2020-05-10 15:08
>  https://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=2528#c8174 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> Bacula does an ABORT by generating a seg fault.  This is the cleanest way of
> aborting on *all* systems.
>
> I have updated the ABORTING message to indicate that it is generating a
> segfault.
>
> This is the documented way of Bacula aborting and not a bug. 

ok, understood.

Another solution could be for the config test mode to check if the port
to be bound to is free. Would you consider that to be in scope for the
config test mode?

Best Regards,

Carsten