Dear All This may be offtopic but here goes ... I've an old box resurected as a qmail server for a small office. It only has 16 meg of ram, but seems to cope quite well. Until this morning! (log entries below): The machine appears to have been flood via Ident requests - This smells of a DOS via Identd to me .... Is not running identd (its run as a daemon from /etc/rc.d/) for a smtp box going to cause problems ? Has anyone else seen such issues on a low memory qmail server / redhat 6.2 box ? I have no other problems with other redhat / qmail boxes of different vintages (although they all have more ram). Any clues greatfully recieved. Greg Cope ### log entries ### Jun 27 08:24:04 mailgate identd[10709]: request_thread: read(11, ..., 1023) failed: Connection reset by peer Jun 27 08:24:10 mailgate identd[10719]: request_thread: read(11, ..., 1023) failed: Connection reset by peer Jun 27 08:24:32 mailgate inetd[325]: fork: Cannot allocate memory Jun 27 08:25:18 mailgate last message repeated 6 times Jun 27 08:26:40 mailgate last message repeated 9 times Jun 27 08:27:25 mailgate last message repeated 9 times Jun 27 08:27:27 mailgate inetd[325]: accept (for telnet): No buffer space available Jun 27 08:27:27 mailgate last message repeated 559 times Jun 27 08:27:27 mailgate inetd[325]: fork: Cannot allocate memory Jun 27 08:28:01 mailgate last message repeated 4 times Jun 27 08:29:26 mailgate last message repeated 6 times Jun 27 08:30:47 mailgate last message repeated 5 times Jun 27 08:31:55 mailgate last message repeated 4 times Jun 27 08:33:57 mailgate syslogd 1.3-3: restart. <--- machine unresponsive so "bounced"
