From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 16 21:24:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA04140 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 21:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nike.efn.org (gurney_j@garcia.efn.org [198.68.17.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA04134 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 21:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gurney_j@localhost) by nike.efn.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA05702; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 21:25:55 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 21:25:53 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: install problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm not sure if anybody else ran across this... but I was using the nice program that allows you to install packages with descriptions when you do an install... I was installing 2.2-960323-SNAP off the cdrom... it seems that when you finally tell it to add the packages... it leaves behind a tar proc for each package.... if you install enough of the packages... the proc table will fill up... I forget the total number of procs... but it was quite a few... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)