Ok, for those interested. ;)

A list subscriber Brian emailed me an explanation to my problem with tripwire
seg fualting on NetBSD/Sparc, and I figured I would share it. :)

Brian's Explanation

On NetBSD, the st_size field of a statbuf is an off_t (ie: 64 bits).
The code in question is assuming it is a 32 bit quantity.  The printf
as it stands will try to dereference the second half of the st_size
field on the stack as the string for the %s.  Changing the %7d to
%7lld should help.  It probably needs similar changes in other places
as well.

(void) printf(" %-9.9s %7d %s", owner, statbuf.st_size, a_time + 4);
from utils.c is the printf in question. changing it to %7lld works and it seems
to run without error (I have yet to run it seriously on a dir other than
/usr/local/etc (for testing)) I will finish up testing it, but it appears this
did the trick.

below is a quick diff -ub you can patch with.

Much thanks to brian for pointing this out to me. ;)

START
--- utils.c     Mon Jul 25 12:23:16 1994
+++ /root/utils.c       Thu Jun 29 16:24:07 2000
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@
 
        print_perm((uint32)statbuf.st_mode);
 
-       (void) printf(" %-9.9s %7d %s", owner, statbuf.st_size,
+       (void) printf(" %-9.9s %7lld %s", owner, statbuf.st_size,
                                                a_time + 4);
        printf(" %s\n", name);
END

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