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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 1995 17:24:57 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Rob Snow <rsnow@legend.txdirect.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   man error:  cannot fork() ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950707172028.10788A-100000@oasis>

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Over the last couple of days I've seen this a couple of times and now I 
think it wasn't just a one time thing.

rsnow@oasis% man sendmail 		; or anything else
groff:fatal error: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

here is the ouput from the following:
$ man sendmail >error_file 2>&1
$ cat error_file

Cannot fork
Error executing formatting or display command.
system command exited with status 512
No manual entry for sendmail

what makes that happen?

ps.	205R, X, fvwm, screen

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Rob Snow
rsnow@txdirect.net




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