From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 5 13:34:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA05543 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA05533 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:34:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA06585 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma006583; Thu Jun 5 13:33:42 1997 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id NAA20769 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:33:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199706052033.NAA20769@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: .forward/procmail help To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:33:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a situation I can't figure out... whenever the number of processes on my machine reaches around 80, sendmail can't deliver mail to my account ("unknown mailer error 2") when I have .forward set to pipe mail into a process. Sometimes the bounce will contain a "Cannot fork" error. It's as if some mysterious number of processes limit is being hit. However: kern.maxproc: 980 kern.maxfilesperproc: 1960 kern.maxprocperuid: 979 Here's my .forward: "|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/local/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #archie" Any ideas? Is there an equivalent of csh's "limit" command in sh that I need to use? Thanks, -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com