On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Miles Sabin wrote:

> > > 3.  After starting X, whenever I run xmh I get,
> > > 
> > >       Error: Cannot perform realloc
> > > 
> > >     Is this a genuine lack of resources, or some other problem?
> > 
> > I get this too - I have tried using unlimit as well to try and solve it,
> > but can't seem to get xmh to run.  I use pine anyway, so not really a
> > problem.
> 
> Silly question, but where are the man pages for unlimit? I get a blank
> for unlimit, and limit gives me the csh page.
> 
> Err ... dumb question, but where do you invoke xdm from? From /etc/rc?
> I can't really be bothered with xdm if I have to login (as root, say)
> before xdm starts and lets me login properly.

	Add the following to the end of /etc/rc.local - should also
	fix your memory limit problems - if not try upping 65536.
	(This assumes your X is in /usr/X11R6.1 - edit to taste :)

#@ Enable X shared libraries & run xdm
XROOT=/usr/X11R6.1
if [ -d $XROOT/lib ];then
        ldconfig $XROOT/lib
fi
if [ -x $XROOT/bin/xdm ];then
        echo -n ' xdm'; csh -c 'limit datasize 65536 ; $XROOT/bin/xdm'
fi



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