From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 9 8: 2:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dolphin.idleplay.net (ip68-11-107-40.no.no.cox.net [68.11.107.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81E637B402 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 08:02:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by dolphin.idleplay.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g19G2bd71511; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 10:02:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020210003058.A95220@shortboy.net> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 10:02:36 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: conrads@cox.net Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-crazed Hippies From: Conrad Sabatier To: Ben Short Subject: Re: login.conf "ignoring" lines Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 09-Feb-2002 Ben Short wrote: > Ok, > Just implemented login.conf. Problem is that it doesnt seem to like > certain lines, and "ignore them. One is the :welcome=/etc/motd:\ line, > ands the other is the :maxproc=8:\ line, the latter of which seems to > only work when it wants to. Did you remember to run "cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf" as mentioned in the comments at the beginning of login.conf? And a maxproc setting of only eight is *extremely* low. One can easily use up that many processes simply logging in to X. -- Conrad Sabatier Zero Defects, n.: The result of shutting down a production line. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message