From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:43:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00905 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:20:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06955 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:38:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA22311; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:01:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:01:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Chip Marshall cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: pidentd problem In-Reply-To: <19980107141454.18574@jlc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Chip Marshall wrote: > On a FreeBSD 2.2.2 box, with identd 2.8.1 compiled from the package > in the ports collection at cdrom.com, we are getting the following > error "k_getuid: ofiles malloc failed" whenever identd is started. > > Can anyone tell me why this is? There seems to be plently of memory > in the box and a nice sized swap, so I don't think it is a memory > size issue. It's probably a per-proces limit problem. Try running `ulimit' before running pidentd, or adjust the limits for `daemon' in /etc/login.conf. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major