From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 13 23:13:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA28140 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 23:13:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com (link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA28110 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 23:13:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) X-Disclaimer: Contents of this e-mail are the writer's opinion X-Disclaimer2: and may not be quoted, re-produced or forwarded X-Disclaimer3: (in part or whole) without the author's permission. Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com (8.9.1+3.0W/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA28454; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:12:57 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:12:57 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar X-Sender: khetan@link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: Neil Blakey-Milner cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su problem with freebsd 2.2.7-stable In-Reply-To: <19980814024219.A22731@rucus.ru.ac.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: >Are you su -m'ing? If not, try that. Or try -l if you're using -m. Also, >does a ps show the new shell starting at all? No, ps doesn't show the new shell starting at all. The su process just grows in size until it seg faults (appears to hit a login.conf problem). My login.conf is stock standard, and my limits are : 1=[khetan@chain] ~$ su Segmentation fault 2=[khetan@chain] ~$ su -m Segmentation fault 3=[khetan@chain] ~$ su -l Segmentation fault 4=[khetan@chain] ~$ ulimit -a core file size (blocks) unlimited data seg size (kbytes) 22528 file size (blocks) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes) 10240 max memory size (kbytes) 30720 open files 64 pipe size (512 bytes) 1 stack size (kbytes) 8192 cpu time (seconds) unlimited max user processes 64 virtual memory (kbytes) 30720 --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za UUNET Internet Africa Support * FreeBSD enthusiast-www2.za.freebsd.org FreeBSD: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message