From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 19 00:53:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA11089 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:53:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA11079 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 07:53:46 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA07287; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:53:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:53:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: dannyman cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No more processes :/ In-Reply-To: <19980418171144.37023@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, dannyman wrote: > i'm running -CURRENT, and while everything on the system seems perfectly > fine, and X runs fine, spawning 20 xterms at a run, should i so request, > (as a test) other processes for my user running through cron, procmail, or > if I telnet in, can't fork. > > other UIDs work just fine ... You're probably running into /etc/login.conf limits. > I know I could RTFM, but this does seem like a good thing to be in a FAQ, > and my RTFFAQ turned up nothing. I'll add it to my FAQ TODO list. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message