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From: jhenders@wimsey.com (John Henders)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: help: how to increase max # of user nobody's processes
Date: 16 Jul 1996 02:19:14 -0700
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In <4sb4vm$ign@er5.rutgers.edu> lemmie@eden.rutgers.edu (lemmie) writes:

>As the subject line notes, I'm trying to increase the maximum # of processes
>spawned by the user "nobody."  I've set up Netscape's httpd to be started by
>nobody but after about 4 or 5 instances (for a number of virtual domains)
>it seems to crap out when users try to execute cgi scripts (which are also
>run by "nobody").

See the /etc/access.conf file and associated man page, if you're using
2.1. Otherwise you could up the number using limit or ulimit in the
startup script