Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 17:09:36 +0159 (MET DST) From: Andreas Schulz <ats@freebsd.first.gmd.de> To: rsnow@legend.txdirect.net (Rob Snow) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man error: cannot fork() ? Message-ID: <199507081509.RAA01597@freebsd.first.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950707172028.10788A-100000@oasis> from "Rob Snow" at Jul 7, 95 05:24:57 pm
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> 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 You are most likely running into the per user process limit. Do a "limit maxproc unlimit" in your .login file to avoid it. Normally you can only have 40 processes at the same time and fvwm starts up a lot :-). ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.10 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe
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