> -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Etzel - GoodnGo.COM (R) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [vchkpw] status 256 > > > Hello list, > one of my qmail-smtpd processes return status 256 like here > in the following > code snippet: > --- > @400000003d8f47a00806969c tcpserver: end 12042 status 256 > --- > > Anybody knows the meaning of status 256? > > Oliver Etzel >
you will see exit status of 256 when someone makes a tcp connection to port 25 and does not respond to the 3-way handshake (ie portscan). You will also see 256 when you get newlines in mail headers, instead of CRLF's. You might want to call recordio before qmail-smtpd, and that will fix all the newline problems, if that's truely what it is. You might want to tcpdump the incoming connections until you see a 256.. D
