Subject: Error messages

From: "Nick Birkett (x8289)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:57:27 -0400 (EDT)

We are using pine on a Solaris system.  One user (with a rather large mail
file) is getting this error message:

pipe can't fork:  /usr/lib/sendmail -b

WE've tried re-booting, deleting some messages, etc. with no change.
Other users have no problem.  System resources seem fine.

Any help interpreting the meaning of this would be appreciated.
(solutions too :-))

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Nicholas Birkett, M.D., M.Sc.
Epidemiology and Community Medicine
University of Ottawa                        [email-masked]
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From: "Nick Birkett (x8289)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:06:42 -0400 (EDT)

Sorry, the full error message is:

  pipe can't fork:  "/usr/lib/sendmail -b"  Not enough space.

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From: "Nick Birkett (x8289)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:58:20 -0400 (EDT)

I think the problem is due to insufficient swap space on the computer (due
to a configuration glitch, one swap file didn't auto mount after the
latest re-boot).  Still strange that not all users were affected.

Thanks.