Subject: Re: tcpserver won't start smtp]
From: Patrick Callahan (pac1@tiac.net)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 19:18:47 MST
> Looking at it now, 2 Mb seems like an
> awfully small limit. Here's the running tcpserver that handles SMTP
> on my machine:
>
> qmaild 372 0.0 0.1 1460 88 ? S Jan22 0:00
> /usr/local/bin/tc
> pserver -x /usr/local/etc/tcpd.smtp.cdb -v -u 502 -g 501 0 smtp
> /var/qmail/bin/q
> mail-smtpd
>
> I wonder if the entire 1460 kB counts agains the 2 Mb limit? I wonder
> if a copy of glibc (which seems to be rougnly 1 Mb if size(1) is
> right) to get getserv* counts? I wonder if tcpserver can fork()
> with that kind of restriction? The documentation is sparse, and I
> have no idea how the 2Mb number was obtained. Indeed, doing the
> following shows that 2Mb may be too small:
Whoa! Big Clue!
Increasing the limit to 4,000,000 did the trick. Definite memory size problem.
So once again I dodge the bullet of having to learn dbg.... Still maybe just as
an exercise for the writer...
Thanks Paul.
-Pat
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