From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 28 13:28:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA25094 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 13:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from admin.cyberenet.net (admin.cyberenet.net [204.213.252.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA25017 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 13:27:59 -0700 (PDT) From: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Received: from ux1.cyberenet.net by admin.cyberenet.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #7) id m0v75wS-000O3zC; Sat, 28 Sep 96 16:24 EDT Received: from wb2oyc.ppp.cyberenet.net by ux1.cyberenet.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #8) id m0v75wR-0006FZC; Sat, 28 Sep 96 16:24 EDT Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.4 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199609281418.HAA01942@root.com> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 21:10:12 +0100 (BST) To: dg@root.com Subject: RE: Cc: David Greenman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 28-Sep-96 David Greenman wrote: > This is a known bug in the installation software. It is failing to properly >reap certain children processes and eventually runs out of processes (process >table is full). The work around is to not select so many packages. > David, Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I discovered that if I just selected a few in a certain category, then install those, that I could get around it. > >rm -rf /var/db/pkg/* > > Will get rid of everything in the package database. Ok, I'll give that a look and think about it. > Actually it's about 1/3rd of them. Are they there in the ports then? Paul >way that the package list was generated (based on the "ports" collection). >Not all "ports" were supplied on the CDROM, however, due to export or >redistribution restrictions and other problems. > >> Another annoying problem >>for me is how do I get bash as my login shell? I've >>put /usr/local/bin/bash as my shell in /etc/passwd, >>but it still doesn't come up that way when I login! > > FreeBSD uses shadow passwords. You must not edit /etc/passwd directly. Use >"vipw" to edit the password file. > >-DG > >David Greenman >Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project ---------------------------------- E-Mail: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Date: 09/28/96 Time: 21:10:22 This message was sent by XF-Mail ----------------------------------