Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Hamster-Fr/2.0.1.10 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:57:14 +0200 From: Luc Hermitte To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: win2k "resource" exhaustion problem - no Cygwin programs will run Message-ID: <20030911225629.GA3616@Orlyn> References: <20030911204141.6110.qmail@web10004.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030911204141.6110.qmail@web10004.mail.yahoo.com> X-Operating-System: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 Hello, * On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:41:41PM -0700, james pentland wrote: > i have a bash script which apparently causes an > exhaustion of system resources. > which "resources" i am unclear about - it does not > seem to be memory. > [...] > ./yawfu-sh: line 7: /usr/bin/sed: Permission denied It looks like a problem several people are experimenting. Lately, someone exposed a link between this problem and Agnitum Outpost (a firewall) that seems to forget to free some resources. This sounds plausible, from my point of view, as I also have Outpost and I'm experimenting this problem. [BTW, Rampage was evoked as a possible workaround, but it had no positive effect on my system.] HTH, -- Luc Hermitte -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/