Brian's problem...

[John Esak]

Sorry, deleted the thread and subject.

But, I meant to mention in my last post that MAXUP is probably the resource
Ken was referring to as the one which limits user processes. It used to be
50 (hmmmm) on older SCO systems, but is now 100 as a default.  This once bit
me pretty bad. I kept having all sorts of failures.... because I didn't know
that they hired a new user (this was back in about 1987 or so) and they just
let her use the same login id as another girl. The _strangest_
undiscoverable problems were happening, until I tracked it down to MAXUP
going over 50!  Then they told me that the new "mary" was logging in with
the old mary's login becuase they didn't know how to add a new user. I fixed
the problem first by giving the new mary the name maryd and later just
changed the tunable to 100.

Totally off subject but the same kind of inscruatable errors will bite you
if FLCRECS or (maybe its NUMFLKRECS or whatever) is too small. Strnge memory
region hassles start happening and they expose themselves as completely
strange failures at completely odd places... with hardly any way to trace
them.

John