On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:10:47AM +0200, Martin Völlinger wrote:
The problem is that in the file loop in the start_pager() function in the
start script ulimit is invoked to limit the virtual memory to 24000 kB before
starting the pager on a virtual terminal. On the next run of the loop the
Does the extra shell stay around with daemon and the pager or does it
terminate?
ps doesn't report any shells staying around after invoking the modified
console-log script. So I think it terminates.
Would increasing the ulimit help as well?
Yes. On my system setting ulimit to 29000kB appears
I could reproduce the bug on my Debian testing amd64 system.
The problem is that in the file loop in the start_pager() function in the
start script ulimit is invoked to limit the virtual memory to 24000 kB before
starting the pager on a virtual terminal. On the next run of the loop the
shell
Package: console-log
Version: 1.0-13
Severity: normal
Tags: unreproducible help
This is probably a 64bit or an amd64 issue, reported in private mail
to the maintainer.
This is a Debian unstable/testing, machine AMD64,
debian kernel Linux 2.6.20-1-amd64
libc6 2.5-7
Console-log always launches
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