Hi, We are running a bash script several times a day under cron. Randomly (maybe once in 500 times), the script fails after it tries to set a variable: ns=0 And the following message appears: Can't reopen pipe to command substitution (fd 5): No child processes Can anyone explain what might be happening, and how to avoid it? Does this mean there are no more processes available? The problem is not reproducible, but when it does occur it does seem to be tied to the "ns=0" line. Several other variables are set prior to this in the script. System-wise, the system is not terribly busy when I've seen this problem. It is a 500 MHz Pentium III running RH 6.1 with 128 MB of RAM. The bash version is the one shipped, 1.14.7-16. And that brings up another question: why does Red Hat use this version of bash? Is there any reason the 2.0.x series is not used? I'm wondering if the problem I'm experiencing is bash related. Thanks, Kevin Tyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MESO, Inc. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
