Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 21:10:12 +0100 (BST) From: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net To: dg@root.com Cc: David Greenman <dg@root.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Message-ID: <XFMail.960928211425.wb2oyc@cyberenet.net> In-Reply-To: <199609281418.HAA01942@root.com>
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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 ----------------------------------
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