From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 4:56:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1690337B423 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 04:56:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13WHG4-000G1B-00; Tue, 05 Sep 2000 12:51:20 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA07568; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:51:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:51:20 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: READ-ONLY mbox! Message-ID: <20000905125120.D72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000905132938.A3824@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000905132938.A3824@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Secondly, I have this script which I 'borrowed' from someone in this > list. It used to work fine before my recent CVSUP but now it gives me > the error below: > > #script to display mounted slices without those mega details....;-) > mount | awk '{print $1 " on " $3}' > > #Error is as follows > > ~$HOME/bin/mount: Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > I am not even a scripting newbie!! Did you change anything in your kernel config file? Please show us what 'sysctl kern.maxproc' and 'sysctl kern.maxprocperuid' shows, as well as 'limits'. Perhaps 'ps ax' to see what is already running on your machine too. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message