From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 02:03:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA14032 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 02:03:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riker.comcirc.com.au (riker.comcirc.com.au [203.17.165.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA13973 Wed, 8 May 1996 02:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from paul@localhost) by riker.comcirc.com.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA13063; Wed, 8 May 1996 19:03:14 +1000 Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 19:03:14 +1000 (EST) From: Paul Sondhu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem when someone tries to finger our host Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was wondering if anyone could help me with the following problem. We run a FreeBSD 2.0.5 Internet Server and today it just all of a sudden appeared to develop a problem with the fingerd daemon. When someone tries to finger our host, the finger shows up no results at the remote end ( they just get a blank line after the host name ) even when there is someone logged on. It even happens when I do a finger straight from the host. eg. f @riker. It doesnt even come up with a "No one logged on" message. The system logs produce the following message which I have no idea what it means. This is the second time it has happenened and I know that a system re-boot fixes it up since that is what I did last time. May 7 14:29:31 riker fingerd[6088]: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable I was wondering if someone could explain the above message to me and explain to me a way to fix it up without rebooting the system. Thanks, Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Sondhu P.Sondhu@comcirc.com.au Computer Circuit Pty. Ltd. Tel: +61 53 826 959 27 Darlot St. Fax: +61 53 826 301 Horsham 3400 WWW: http://www.comcirc.com.au/staff/paul Victoria Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------