Not directly related to the issue, but I thought I'd not that you don't have to have sudo exec an su with the "sudo su - user", you can get an interactive shell from sudo directly: sudo -i -u user
-i says you want an interactive login shell. If you don't specify "-u username" then it assumes root. -Shawn On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Brian Chabot <br...@brianchabot.org>wrote: > THANK YOU! > > I found the error. > > Thanks to Ken for the strace idea, I looked through the resultant log > and found this line: > > 9519 read(8, "# Default limit for number of user's processes to > prevent\n# accidental fork bombs.\n# See rhbz #432903 for > reasoning.\n\n* soft nproc 1024\nroot soft > nproc unlimited\n", 4096) = 191 > > That didn't jive with /etc/security/limits.conf so it stood out in my > visual scan. > > Looking up a few lines to see where it got that from I see: > > 9519 open("/etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf", O_RDONLY) = 8 > > Ok, so /etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf over-rules > /etc/security/limits.conf > > Good to know. > > I raised the nproc limit and the su- worked. > > Thanks again to all of you. > > Brian > Brian Chabot > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Mark Komarinski <mkomarin...@wayga.org> > wrote: > > > > On 3/10/2014 10:20 AM, Brian Chabot wrote: > >> Also, disk space and RAM are aplenty... > >> > >> Is there any way to tell *which* resource is unavailable? > >> Brian Chabot > >> > > > > Two other thoughts: > > > > - Is SELinux enabled? Check the logs and see if there's anything > > strange there. > > - try using strace to see which call returns the error. It might give > > you a clue about what it's trying to do. > > _______________________________________________ > > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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