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Date:      14 Jun 1998 11:51:47 -0400
From:      Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Fax, pnmtotiff, "out of memory allocating as array"
Message-ID:  <x7sol8rnfw.fsf@singularity.enigami.com>
In-Reply-To: Amancio Hasty's message of "Sun, 14 Jun 1998 02:50:05 -0700"

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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

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Cory Kempf                Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development
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