Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 08:38:53 +1000 (EST) From: Paul Sondhu <paul@riker.comcirc.com.au> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem when someone tries to finger our host Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960509083613.15676A-100000@riker.comcirc.com.au> In-Reply-To: <9605081531.AA19076@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov>
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On Wed, 8 May 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Sondhu <paul@riker.comcirc.com.au> 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. > I ran the command you mentioned above and it comes up with the number 88. Is value OK? 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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