Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 09:31:46 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: paul@riker.comcirc.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem when someone tries to finger our host Message-ID: <9605081531.AA19076@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960508190014.13031A-100000@riker.comcirc.com.au> (message from Paul Sondhu on Wed, 8 May 1996 19:03:14 %2B1000 (EST))
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>>>>> "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.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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