From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 13 11:39:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA11905 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:39:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA11889 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:38:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA02291; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:38:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:38:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Keith Mitchell cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Login Class Question In-Reply-To: <19971111190323.44630@guru.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Keith Mitchell wrote: > I have a system that is running 2.2.5 with login classes set up. When a > particular user is logged in with X he has around 30 processes actively > running. A 'limits' shows that he has a maxproc-current of 64. Yet if > he gets a mail message it will not invoke his filter. The sender gets a > message back saying it couldn't fork. This is probably running as `nobody' which has little or no permissions. Try upgrading to a newer login.conf from http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/login.conf and rebuild your capability database. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major