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From: Tony Sanders <sanders@earth.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Cron "No more prcesses" spawning nntpsend
Date: 16 Mar 1995 17:06:08 GMT
Organization: Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
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--
You are hitting the per user process limit. The easiest way
around this is to write a little shell script:
#!/bin/sh
limit maxproc 128
limit datasize 32000000
exec "$@"
and then run the news scripts under it, e.g.:
relimit /usr/contrib/lib/news/bin/nntpsend
If you have a dedicated machine for news and you believe
it safe for you situation, you can change the global default by
setting ``options "CHILD_MAX=128"'' in the kernel configuration
file (this doesn't work in V1.1 but does in V2.0).