on Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:12:46AM -0000, Mikael Jirari ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi I'm trying qmail-scanner and I got this message in my syslog > > X-Qmail-Scanner-1.15: [mailsvr103891358642412441] Unable to fork > /var/qmail/bin (#4.3.0) - Permission denied > X-Qmail-Scanner-1.15: [mailsvr103891358642412441] Unable to queue message > (111). (#4.3.0) - Illegal seek > > > Ls -al gives > -rwsr-xr-x 1 qmailq qmail 57730 Dec 3 10:57 > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Dec 3 10:57 /var/qmail/bin > > What does it exactly means ? > I know a little bit what fork means but I can't see the problem > How could I resolve that ?
The "Unable to fork" usually means you've run out of system resources, generally memory, file handles, or process table entries. You'll want to : - Check memory: free - Check filehandles: lsof | wc -l - Check processes: ps aux | wc -l; ps ux | wc -l ...generally, user processes are limited to ~256 (check me on this, I'm not positive). I'm not sure what the "Illegal seek" message is coming from, Google that w/ 'qmail-scanner' as a related term. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
