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#! rnews 946 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!usenet From: Wayne Farmer <wayne@telstra.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Cannot fork ... system command exited with status 512 ? Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 12:18:01 +1100 Organization: Telstra Internet Lines: 13 Message-ID: <31116649.41C67EA6@telstra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pizza.telstra.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Is the error below a kernel config type problem ? man tar Formatting page, please wait...Cannot fork Error executing formatting or display command. system command exited with status 512 Failed. I have re-compiled the kernel with more ptys as I tend to have windows open to all the machines I manage and I ran out. I have 69 processes (mostly xterms) running right now running on a 16Mb 486/66 - no problems.