From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 08:31:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA10276 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 08:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA10251 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 08:31:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA19076; Wed, 8 May 96 15:31:44 GMT Message-Id: <9605081531.AA19076@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA256929506; Wed, 8 May 1996 09:31:46 -0600 Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 09:31:46 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: paul@riker.comcirc.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (message from Paul Sondhu on Wed, 8 May 1996 19:03:14 +1000 (EST)) Subject: Re: Problem when someone tries to finger our host Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Sondhu writes: Paul> May 7 14:29:31 riker fingerd[6088]: fork: Resource Paul> temporarily unavailable This suggests that the process table is full, i.e.: that there are so many users running so many processes that the finger daemon can't run a process itself that it needs to provide the information. If you're logged in and run ``ps -auxww | wc -l'' and get a large number or the command fails with a message ``Cannot fork'' then that is the reason. The fix is to reconfig the kernel with a higher value of maxusers. If the command works and the number is low, then there's another problem ... but I'm not sure which. Maybe permissions. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/