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From: Andreas Schulz <ats@freebsd.first.gmd.de>
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Subject: Re: man error:  cannot fork() ?
To: rsnow@legend.txdirect.net (Rob Snow)
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 17:09:36 +0159 (MET DST)
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> here is the ouput from the following:
> $ man sendmail >error_file 2>&1
> $ cat error_file
> 
> Cannot fork
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> system command exited with status 512
> No manual entry for sendmail
> 
> what makes that happen?
> 
> ps.	205R, X, fvwm, screen

You are most likely running into the per user process limit.
Do a "limit maxproc unlimit" in your .login file to avoid it. Normally
you can only have 40 processes at the same time and fvwm starts up a
lot :-).


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