The error you are seeing can be caused by a couple of things:
The file table in the kernel of your operating system is full. This happens because a lot of users have a lot of open files and the kernel wasn't configured to allow more open files than what are already open in all of the processes that are currently running on your system.
You personally have more open files in processes that you are running than are allowed by your system administrator for an individual (non-privileged) user. This can frequently happen to newbies who first find out that they can run lots of background jobs and forget that running jobs in the background consumes system resources.
Since you do not have root privileges, you cannot fix the 1st problem. If this is your problem, you need to let your system administrator know that you can't run jobs because the file table is full and ask her/him to get rid of some of the offending file hogs or reconfigure the system to have a larger file table. (Note that this only applies to older systems; more recent system usually grow the file table as needed.)
If you can successfully run the command:
where login_name is the name you use when you login to your system, that will give you a list of all of the processes that are running with your user-ID. If there are lots of (possibly long-running) background jobs there that you didn't realize were still running, either wait for those jobs to complete or kill them off on your own.
But, of course, if the file table is full (problem #1 above) and there are running processes trying to open more files, the ps command may fail as it tries to open directories to find ps, to open the password data base to find your login name, etc.
I am working on a test machine.
I just discovered that I have misunderstood the way the following command is run.
chown -Rv some_user:users /some_folder/*This command do exactly what I want. Change the owner of every things from the named folder and in all child folders.
But of course it leave... (13 Replies)
I am trying to change the directory to owner of Sybase. But I get permission denied. I did login as root.
newd1> ls -l
total 58
drwxr-xr-x 2 prod develop 5 Oct 17 06:51 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 prod develop 7 Oct 17 07:18 etc
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1... (15 Replies)
Hi,
on a Solaris 5.9 machine no user except for root is able to use chown.
for exmaple:
> touch iamgal
> ls -la iamgal
-rw-r--r-- 1 galtest1 other 0 Dec 19 08:40 iamgal
> chown galu iamgal
chown: iamgal: Not owner
I have checked about /etc/system and rstchown - it is... (5 Replies)
Hello
My oracledatabase creats some xmlfiles. this files has the owner hugo. now I've a script (how runs als hugo2) and this script will insert this XMLFile into the database. But that doesn't work, because the owner of the files is wrong, and hugo has not the rights to insert this files into... (3 Replies)
I have a file fin2009_4.txt.gz in the unix ftp server. Owner of the file is: ftpusr.
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftpusr sap 0 Feb 19 10:19 fin2009_4.txt.gz
When I try to delete this file after copying to my home folder, I am getting the following error.
rm: fin2009_4.txt.gz1: override... (4 Replies)
hello
chown not change ownership
before:
205:system ~kuku
chown kuku:system ~kuku
after no change
205:system ~kuku
aix box
can someone help me?
ariec (2 Replies)
I have a box that people are using to ssh to our customer sites. Everyone uses an NIS account that I have created for them. I also create home directories for these users as well on this box.
My question is can use a command, like chown, to change ownership of the directories I create to the... (2 Replies)