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Operating Systems HP-UX error : can not fork new process Post 302251159 by vbe on Saturday 25th of October 2008 09:35:35 AM
Old 10-25-2008
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then i called our sysadmin ( i am not sys admin ) who told me to rename ksh.
Does he ( your sysadmin) remember most users on HPUX have /usr/bin/ksh as default shell (in /etc/passwd...)?
What if root can login only at the console, and no one were connected? Who will su root?...

When you say 400 proc max, what value are you talking about? nproc or maxuprc?
The difference? One is global - for all the system, the other is per user...

I, would start by removing . in the path of that user, if not enough, change his login shell to rksh and perhaps use script to see what he is up to, this reminds me - Have you looked in his .sh_history to see what he was doing ? This may give you some clues...

And you have mentioned you had scripts that may be the cause , I would go and chase them and I would remove execute permission on them, then try to understand their content...
 

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FORK(3F)																  FORK(3F)

NAME
fork - create a copy of this process SYNOPSIS
integer function fork() DESCRIPTION
Fork creates a copy of the calling process. The only distinction between the 2 processes is that the value returned to one of them (referred to as the `parent' process) will be the process id of the copy. The copy is usually referred to as the `child' process. The value returned to the `child' process will be zero. All logical units open for writing are flushed before the fork to avoid duplication of the contents of I/O buffers in the external file(s). If the returned value is negative, it indicates an error and will be the negation of the system error code. See perror(3F). A corresponding exec routine has not been provided because there is no satisfactory way to retain open logical units across the exec. How- ever, the usual function of fork/exec can be performed using system(3F). FILES
/usr/lib/libU77.a SEE ALSO
fork(2), wait(3F), kill(3F), system(3F), perror(3F) 4.2 Berkeley Distribution May 27, 1986 FORK(3F)
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