INN FAQ syslog message: ME cant fork /some/tool Resource temporarily unavailable

INN FAQ Part 3

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Subject: (3.11) syslog message: ME cant fork /some/tool Resource temporarily unavailable
User news ran out of processes and wasn't able to fork off the specific tool. You need either just raise the limit on the number of processes in the shell which starts innd (e.g in rc.news : unlimit maxproc or if that doesn't help raise the number of processes in the kernelconfig (most often by raising maxusers and also raising the # of processes per user). ------------------------------ [Source: INN FAQ Part 3 Archive-name: usenet/software/inn-faq/part3] [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/11/03 18:15:12 $ $Revision: 2.18 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.]

Subject: (3.11) syslog message: ME cant fork /some/tool Resource temporarily unavailable

User news ran out of processes and wasn't able to fork off the specific tool.
You need either just raise the limit on the number of processes in the
shell which starts innd (e.g in rc.news :

unlimit maxproc

or if that doesn't help raise the number of processes in the kernelconfig
(most often by raising maxusers and also raising the # of processes per user).

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[Source: INN FAQ Part 3 Archive-name: usenet/software/inn-faq/part3]
[Last Changed: $Date: 1997/11/03 18:15:12 $ $Revision: 2.18 $]
[Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.]