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From: "Francis Percival C. Favoreal" <june@adn.edu.ph>
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Subject: cannot fork
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What happens if a process cannot fork? What's the cause of this? How can 
this be fix?

I have a special shell /bin/chat for a particular user. After 20 people 
logged in using this special account, I see the message below:

/bin/chat: Cannot fork.

/bin/chat is a script that automatically envokes an irc client.

Thank you


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rick