From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 12:21: 2 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 12:20:59 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dayspring.firedrake.org (dayspring.firedrake.org [195.82.105.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DA437B698 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 12:20:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from float by dayspring.firedrake.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14EdM3-0007CL-00; Fri, 05 Jan 2001 20:20:51 +0000 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 20:20:51 +0000 From: void To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: semsys(2) and undeletable semaphores Message-ID: <20010105202051.A27501@firedrake.org> References: <20010105183035.A23040@firedrake.org> <20010105104911.E15744@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010105195910.A27037@firedrake.org> <20010105121550.G15744@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010105121550.G15744@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:15:50PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:15:50PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > hmm, are you sure you have permission to do this? I'm root. > is 'username' your username? I tried su'ing to him, too. > What's the output of 'sysctl -a | grep sem'? # sysctl -a | grep sem kern.ipc.semmap: 31 kern.ipc.semmni: 200 kern.ipc.semmns: 600 kern.ipc.semmnu: 31 kern.ipc.semmsl: 150 kern.ipc.semopm: 101 kern.ipc.semume: 11 kern.ipc.semusz: 100 kern.ipc.semvmx: 32767 kern.ipc.semaem: 16384 p1003_1b.semaphores: 0 p1003_1b.sem_nsems_max: 0 p1003_1b.sem_value_max: 0 Here's another data point: the user just informed me that he's been deleting the shared memory segments in which the semaphores live *before* deleting the semaphores. Could this be the root of the problem? It seems like a silly thing to do, but at the same time, it probably shouldn't result in undeleteable semaphores. -- Ben 220 go.ahead.make.my.day ESMTP Postfix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message