From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 5 12:38:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5713037B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:38:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A3343EC5 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:38:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:37:35 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 18K2je-0004RV-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:36:38 +0000 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Matthew Bettinger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crontab -e In-Reply-To: <200212051324.41115.mbettinger@championelevators.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Matthew Bettinger wrote: > Thanks all. > > By the way now I'm getting some more errors Check this out. > > Dec 5 13:05:00 tester /usr/sbin/cron[26639]: getting vmemoryuse resource > limit: Invalid argument > Dec 5 13:05:00 tester /usr/sbin/cron[26643]: getting vmemoryuse resource > limit: Invalid argument > Dec 5 13:05:00 tester /usr/sbin/cron[26643]: getting vmemoryuse resource > limit: Invalid argument > > > I looked in sysctl -a for vmemoryuse but found none. Is there a way I can > increase this limit? Cron is attempting to run jobs from some user's crontab. To do that, it sets up the process environment to spawn that job. That involves processing the appropriate login.conf entry (to set process limits). Looking at the source, it's hard to see why the call that's failing should break. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ NB: with "Fundamental Human Rights" come "Fundamental Human Responsibilities". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message