Re: Need help with lazarus "Can't fork at command.pl"

Andreas Ott <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:46:07 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.forensics.tct
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:02:23AM +0100, Mair, Wolfgang wrote:
> /tmp/tct-1.14/bin/lazarus -D /b/blocks /export/home/xxx/unrm_output
> 
> it stops after a few hours with the message: Can't fork at
> /tmp/tct-1.14/lib/command.pl line 98.
> 
> The last time I ran it, it created about 20000 files. But unfortunatelly the
> data, which I could see in the unrm_output file, is not in these files. So,
> I guess, the lazarus wasn't finished yet. 

Have you examined the current settings/limits of file descriptors or other
UNIX resources? Are you using Solaris8 defaults while running lazarus?
Please look at  `ulimit -a -v` of the user trying to run the process. To 
me it looks like perl cannot open any more file descriptors.

-andreas
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Andreas Ott                            [email protected]