Josh Wilmes wrote:
>
>Are you possibly out of memory? (perhaps a process has run away and gobbled
>
>it up)?
No; the problem is only if I try to get an interactive su session:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 131403776 123076608 8327168 54677504 4624384 49696768
Swap: 269676544 44146688 225529856
MemTotal: 128324 kB
MemFree: 8132 kB
MemShared: 53396 kB
Buffers: 4516 kB
Cached: 48532 kB
SwapTotal: 263356 kB
SwapFree: 220244 kB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] su -c ls
Password:
0.0=1.29172.exmh exmh.1563.html filevV2bSY pg7
...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] su
Password:
linda:/tmp# ls
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
linda:/tmp# cd
linda:~#
but, as you see, shell built-ins still work.
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Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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