>  > I just recently installed 1.5.2 on two identical IIcx machines. The
>>  only thing to each I did was set up the network to logon remotely and
>>  install bash from pkgsrc (binary, not built from scratch). On the one
>>  machine, everything is fine. On the second, logging in gives me:
>>
>>  bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
>Whatever user you are logging in as has reached the default number of
>processes (80, usually), or the whole system is at it's maximum number of
>processes (don't know what this is in GENERIC).
>
>Old IIcx machines are slow; perhaps ssh is taking too long to generate
>keys, then the new keys every hour are adding up or something bizarre like
>that.
>
>Hit the debugger button, type "sync", reboot, and see if you can log on
>right after the machine boots. Unlimit that shell and run top and see
>where your processes are coming from.

Well, I am pathetically stoopid. I post this for catharsis and to 
make the archive complete. The reason I had this fork problem is 
that, while I was mucking about in /etc/bashrc, I apparently made a 
cut/paste error and put "/etc/bashrc" as its last line... d o h @ !


Stefan Jeglinski