ctlinnd lowmark requires fully qualified filename?

[Joe St Sauver]

#} When I try that, however, I get a very nice seg fault and a core dump...
#} 
#}   % echo rec.pyrotechnics | expireover -f - -Z /usr/local/news/tmp/lowmark
#}   Segmentation fault (core dumped)
#
#Could you investigate where it fails?

Finally got a chance to take that core file into gdb... it looks like the
seg fault is at:

doing a where, I see:

#0  0x400d2bcd in __libc_free (mem=0xbffffb5b) at malloc.c:3143
#1  0x08049f95 in main (argc=5, argv=0xbffffa24) at expireover.c:147
#2  0x4006e507 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8049cf0 <main>, argc=5, 
    ubp_av=0xbffffa24, init=0x8049508 <_init>, fini=0x8069340 <_fini>, 
    rtld_fini=0x4000dc14 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffa1c)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129


expireover.c:147 is the free(active_path) in the chunk of code shown below...

    /* Set up the path to the list of newsgroups we're going to use and open
       that file.  This could be stdin. */
    if (active_path == NULL) {
        active_path = concatpath(innconf->pathdb, _PATH_ACTIVE);
        purge_deleted = true;
    }
    if (EQ(active_path, "-")) {
        qp = QIOfdopen(fileno(stdin));
        if (qp == NULL)
            sysdie("can't reopen stdin");
    } else {
        qp = QIOopen(active_path);
        if (qp == NULL)
            sysdie("can't open active file (%s)", active_path);
    }
    free(active_path);

Regards,

Joe