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From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: .forward/procmail help
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:17:47 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: archie@whistle.com
In-Reply-To: <199706052033.NAA20769@bubba.whistle.com> from Archie Cobbs at "Jun 5, 97 01:33:34 pm"
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> 
> I have a situation I can't figure out... whenever the number of processes
> on my machine reaches around 80, sendmail can't deliver mail to my account
> ("unknown mailer error 2") when I have .forward set to pipe mail into a
> process. Sometimes the bounce will contain a "Cannot fork" error.
> It's as if some mysterious number of processes limit is being hit.
.....

> 
> Is there an equivalent of csh's "limit" command in sh that I need to use?
> 
Of course, the name of the command is: ulimit.  (man 1 sh)

Gabor

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