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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:29:04 +1100 (EST)
From:      David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cannot fork
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970122152601.3427A-100000@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <E0vmqWF-0000dU-00@rover.village.org>

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On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Warner Losh wrote:

>How to I get rid of the cannot fork messages?  I have maxusers set to
>be 30 for my 486 box, yet I still get these messages from time to
>time.  I just upgraded from Nov 24 -current to Jan 19-current and have
>found that the number of times I'm hitting this seems to be much
>greater.

As others have also said, this is probably due to
/etc/login.conf. I committed changes to the default one earlier
which should alleviate most of the problems. Otherwise, edit as
appropriate. FWIW, the "default" class now modifies mostly soft
limits as opposed to hard limits, allowing you to change soft
resource limits upwards if it is appropriate. For public systems
offering shell accounts, you'd probably need to be a little more
strict than that. :-)


Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
Voice +61-3-9791-9547  Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507  3:632/348@fidonet
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