Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-31 Thread Eric Weigel
I just logged in on console as root, and ulimit -a reported 256 processes max. So I don't think the problem is with su. Maybe it's PAM? I wonder where this gets configured? On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: Brian Greenfield wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:12:12 +0900, Junichi

Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
Josh Wilmes wrote: Are you possibly out of memory? (perhaps a process has run away and gobbled it up)? No; the problem is only if I try to get an interactive su session: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem:

Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-30 Thread Josh Wilmes
Interesting. Try ulimit -a. Any strange limits set? --Josh Josh Wilmes wrote: Are you possibly out of memory? (perhaps a process has run away and gobbl ed it up)? No; the problem is only if I try to get an interactive su session: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat

Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
Josh Wilmes wrote: Interesting. Try ulimit -a. Any strange limits set? Not that I can see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ulimit -a core file size (blocks) unlimited data seg size (kbytes) unlimited file size (blocks) unlimited max

Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-30 Thread Junichi Uekawa
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Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-30 Thread Brian Greenfield
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:12:12 +0900, Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:10:20 +0100, de profundis Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk cum veritas scribat and see how many processes root is running ... 237! Samba running as a daemon rather than from inetd seems to have

Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
Brian Greenfield wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:12:12 +0900, Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:10:20 +0100, de profundis Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] x.co.uk cum veritas scribat and see how many processes root is running ... 237! Samba

What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
If I su, I then get the message bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable on almost every command I try. I found that `exec sh' let me do things. So it seems that something has changed in the set-up of bash or su -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of

Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-29 Thread Jacob Kuntz
is somebody running main(for(;;){fork();})? :) Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: If I su, I then get the message bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable on almost every command I try. I found that `exec sh' let me do things. So it seems that something has changed in the set-up