Yes, I got the same message with our server. I had to kill all the ssh sessions that "didn't exist".
I also had a problem with ssh which asked me to create more pttys, which I did and this also alleviated the problem....not sure why ssh (I think v 1.3) does this (ie creates phantom processes when the user had already logged out) Rob... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrei Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Imre Vida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 5:44 AM Subject: Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > Hi, > > > > i seem to have a problem with my Debian box. > > > > When i try to login to it using ssh it accepts > > the login but then instead of the bash prompt > > i get the following erromsg: > > > > bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > > > This has never happened before and i didn't > > anything in the configuration since my last remote login. > > > > What could be the problem? > > > > imre > > I've seen this before, and it has got something to do with too many > processes running on the system, eating up the file descriptor table. We > had a system in the office that had 50-some instances of a process > running, and were getting this message (I believe). Please correct me if > I'm wrong. > Andrei
