I just went to read a manual page on my -current VM where I had not touched the xterm for a few days and I was greeted by: $ man nouveau ksh: cannot fork - try again From the logs I don't see anything in the intervening time. Mar 30 06:10:06 nbt cron[5003]: (root) CMD FINISH (/usr/libexec/atrun) Apr 6 15:29:57 nbt syslogd[659]: last message repeated 40 times Mar 30 06:00:13 nbt mDNSResponder: Default: Received Goodbye packet for cached record -- name hash: 275ed856, type: TXT, last time received: 1743339613, interface index: 1, source address: 10.0.1.27, name hash if PTR: 0 Apr 6 15:29:57 nbt /netbsd: [ 460917.6494268] proc: table is full - increase kern.maxproc or NPROC There should of course have been entries in the logs between these times -- if nothing else mDNSResponder is quite noisy all by itself. The last thing that seems to have been running was /etc/weekly. I closed the one login session and everything sprang back to life, including pending delivery of some mail from cron, mostly about newsyslog not finding some compressed files, presumably because it couldn't for the compressor. Oddly there was no mail from /etc/weekly, but /var/log/weekly.out was written to at the time. -- Greg A. Woods <gwoods%acm.org@localhost> Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <woods%robohack.ca@localhost> Planix, Inc. <woods%planix.com@localhost> Avoncote Farms <woods%avoncote.ca@localhost>
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