From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 16:30:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA06706 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 16:30:50 -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 QAA06699 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 16:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from paul@localhost) by riker.comcirc.com.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA16126; Thu, 9 May 1996 09:31:13 +1000 Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 09:31:13 +1000 (EST) From: Paul Sondhu To: Sean Kelly cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem when someone tries to finger our host In-Reply-To: <9605082306.AA22879@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 May 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Sondhu writes: > > Paul> I ran the command you mentioned above and it comes up with > Paul> the number 88. Is value OK? > > If MAXUSERS is <= 4, then no. > > The size of the process table is 20 + 16*MAXUSERS. > > If you're reliably running out of process space, then increase > MAXUSERS. > > If the problem you're experiencing is only with fingerd, then > increasing MAXUSERS probably isn't the right answer. But try it and > see if it helps. > The problem does only happen with fingerd. I'll try increasing MAXUSERS and see how it goes. 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------