Hi Gideon, On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Gideon N. Guillen <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a tonidoplug (ARM plugcomputer, running ubuntu jaunty) that >> I've broken somehow. I can ssh to it as root, but I can't ssh as a >> regular user nor (once in as root) can I sudo, su or login as a >> regular user. > > OK. I'll give it a shot. Someone messed with the maximum number of processes > for that machine. > Maybe that person modified /etc/security/limits.conf (the line with nproc, > set to 2 only) or set your > the shell to run "ulimit -u 2".
Thanks for the shot :-). I looked at that a while ago, and again just now. the only entry in /etc/security/limits.conf is: root hard core unlimited adding tiger or * with the same values doesn't improve things. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com [email protected] [email protected] Even Tom Lane said: "Or, if you're worried about actions from functions, use a trigger to do the logging. There are approximately no cases where a rule is really better than a trigger :-( " _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
