Re: runaway man processes and cron emails

1998-08-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"M" == M C Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent M> directories Check permissions for /; /home; (essentially the whole tree for `pwd`), and make sure there the permissions are 0755 for all directories (re

Re: runaway man processes and cron emails

1998-08-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Dear all, > > when I leave pick for a while (which is often necessary, given > it's still in cambridge), the load gradually increases, due to processes > like: > > 24227 man 17 10 624 624 484 R N 0 93.3 4.4 2975m sh > > They only start after I've read a man page (I t

runaway man processes and cron emails

1998-08-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, when I leave pick for a while (which is often necessary, given it's still in cambridge), the load gradually increases, due to processes like: 24227 man 17 10 624 624 484 R N 0 93.3 4.4 2975m sh They only start after I've read a man page (I think), and I also s