Hi again I've tried the various suggestions about raising the memory limit (I went as high as 100M) but I don't think this is the problem. I still get the error message in the telnet session after typing .<CR> to terminate the email.
I guess one thing I failed to mention in my previous message was that I'm starting qmail-smtpd via xinetd and passing in the following settings: env = QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue" rlimit_as = 100M server = /usr/sbin/tcpd server_args = /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env -R /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd I don't think this is where the problem lies however as I'm fairly happy that xinetd is (functionally) equivalent to tcpserver and should honour the environment limits and I think it is more likely to be a permissions error. Please correct me if I'm mistaken about xinetd's behaviour. If I have Perl installed as suid, should I be using the C wrapper ? Does it matter ? Here is are the file permissions/ownership of the qmail scanner programs: -rwsr-xr-x 1 qscand qscand 4696 Jun 20 16:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue -rwxr-xr-x 1 qscand qscand 120999 Jun 21 12:25 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl Also, I would have thought there should be some corresponding log message from qmail when it issues the "unable to exec qq" message. Where should I look for this ? Do I need to enable more debugging options in qmail ? or xinetd ? Thanks again Jeremy PS. I've tried to install the daemontools package but this fails when running package/install with undefined references to errno when loading envdir, unix.a & byte.a. This means that running /usr/local/bin/softlimit is not an option at the moment. PPS. I've taken over administration of this box after the previous admin left so I'm still finding my way around. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
