From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264289AbTKZTnq (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:43:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264294AbTKZTnq (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:43:46 -0500 Received: from out008pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.108]:61359 "EHLO out008.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264289AbTKZTno (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:43:44 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: None that appears to be detectable by casual observers To: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: amanda vs 2.6 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:43:43 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200311261212.10166.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <200311261415.52304.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20031126193059.GS8039@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20031126193059.GS8039@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311261443.43695.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out008.verizon.net from [151.205.54.127] at Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:43:43 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 26 November 2003 14:30, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >On Wednesday 26 November 2003 12:19, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >>> echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory > >On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:15:52PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Unforch, this seems to have fubared the system, and I will have to >> reboot as I cannot (it hangs) do an "su amanda" after executeing >> this. I forgot in case you aren't fam with amanda, much of it will not run as any user but its own user, in this case amanda. Security etc. >Sounds like trouble. Are there any external signs of what's going > on? e.g. is the disk thrashing? No, it just hangs forever on the su command, never coming back. everything else I tried, which wasn't much, seemed to keep on working as I sent that message with that hung su process in another shell on another window. I'm an idiot, normally running as root... I've rebooted, not knowing if an echo 0 to that variable would fix it or not, I see after the reboot the default value is 0 now. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.