Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 21:07:09 -0500 From: Edwin Culp <eculp@ver1.telmex.net.mx> To: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fax, pnmtotiff, "out of memory allocating as array" Message-ID: <358481CD.57CF5A08@ver1.telmex.net.mx> References: <x7sol8rnfw.fsf@singularity.enigami.com>
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Cory Kempf wrote: > > Help? > I am trying to set up mgetty to receive a fax, convert it to tiff, and > e-mail it out. Mgetty works fine, and I have written a script to > handle creating the mime/e-mail stuffs. > > The core of it is, for each page of fax: > > g32pbm file.fax > file.pbm > pnmtotiff file.pbm > file.tif > > Working as root, I tested it, works fine. I then attempted to receive > a fax, and got the error message > > "pnmtotiff: out of memory allocating an array" > > I try doing it manually, as root, on the same file, with the same > script: no error. I su to the fax account, and get the error. I make > the script suid root, it still errors when run. > > I then tried doing a "limits -d 100m -s 30m -m 100m" in the shell as > the fax user, and was able to manually do the commands. So I stuck > that line in the shell script. > > no joy. > > So, anyone know what I need to do to fix this? > > Thanks, > > +C > Try uping the limits in /etc/login.conf. ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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