From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 25 08:59:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22159 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 08:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22124; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 08:59:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id RAA03349; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:58:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:58:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: Nicole cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PID killed, exceeeded maximum CPU limit... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Nicole wrote: > Please forgive the Niaveness of this question, and my poor spelling at > 5:50 in the morning, but what usually causes something to exceed the CPU > limit and what CPU limit is the message below probobly refering too. How > can I prevent this? > > Sep 25 04:45:00 test2 /kernel: pid 137 (inetd), uid 0, was killed: > exceeded maximum CPU limit Sounds strange. Normally there should no CPU time limit for the daemon processes. Please check login class "daemon" in "/etc/login.conf". The corresponding entry should be ":cputime=infinity:". If nothings works insert the line ulimit -t unlimited at the beginning of your "/etc/rc" file. But before doing that ypu should ask yourself how "inetd" has been started before. May be someone knowing the root password started "inetd" manually after problems from a shell with a CPU time limit set? Ok, the pid is small, so that's unlikely, but ... Konrad Heuer // Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH // Goettingen (GWDG), Am Fassberg, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany // // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message