Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 21:33:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Daniel C. Konnoff" <daniel@mysonusa.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.2 cdrom June 97 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905213022.7395C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970904121118.10665A-100000@paphos>
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On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Daniel C. Konnoff wrote: > Hello: > > Two questions: > > 1) with fvwm2 running on this machine with 64meg of RAM I > continually get the message "cannot fork" while attempting > to start new applications. This occurs with 6 windows open > and a few user process running (netscape, pine). Also occurs > with both the generic and custom kernel - kernel config file > is included at the end of this message. I bumped up MAXUSERS > but this did not help. Are you getting console messages regarding the login capabilities as well? Does /etc/login.conf exist? See ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT for more info. > > 2) also with fvwm2 running the BASH profile does not get sourced > when new x-term windows are opened. The profile file is the one > supplied when new user accounts are added to the system using > the cdrom command. Are you sure that bash is getting called in an xterm and not /bin/sh? Is your `BASH profile' in .profile or .bash_profile (or whatever it is)? > options KTRACE #kernel tracing You'll probably want to take this out. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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