From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 15:39:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA01524 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 15:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riker.comcirc.com.au (riker.comcirc.com.au [203.17.165.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA01518 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 15:39:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from paul@localhost) by riker.comcirc.com.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA15720; Thu, 9 May 1996 08:38:54 +1000 Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 08:38:53 +1000 (EST) From: Paul Sondhu To: Sean Kelly cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem when someone tries to finger our host In-Reply-To: <9605081531.AA19076@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 May 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Sondhu writes: > > Paul> May 7 14:29:31 riker fingerd[6088]: fork: Resource > Paul> temporarily unavailable > > This suggests that the process table is full, i.e.: that there are so > many users running so many processes that the finger daemon can't run > a process itself that it needs to provide the information. > > If you're logged in and run ``ps -auxww | wc -l'' and get a large > number or the command fails with a message ``Cannot fork'' then that > is the reason. The fix is to reconfig the kernel with a higher value > of maxusers. > > If the command works and the number is low, then there's another > problem ... but I'm not sure which. Maybe permissions. > I ran the command you mentioned above and it comes up with the number 88. Is value OK? Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Sondhu P.Sondhu@comcirc.com.au Computer Circuit Pty. Ltd. Tel: +61 53 826 959 27 Darlot St. Fax: +61 53 826 301 Horsham 3400 WWW: http://www.comcirc.com.au/staff/paul Victoria Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------