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Re: makewhatis and out of virtual memory?!



On Mon, 10 Jun 1996 01:22:35 +0300 (IDT), you wrote:

>Hi guys.
>
>I have just finished fine-tweaking my newly installed RedHat Picaso 3.0.3 
>and it is great, but I have one un-solved problem.
>
>I was trying to run "makewhatis" to, well, make what is ;-) and after a 
>half an hour of grinding my HD, it halted, crying: "Out of virtual memory".
>Now I have 8 megs, a 24 megs swap space and the damn box was doing 
>nothing else at the time, execpt the usuall deamons (no X, no nothing).
This has beaten to death in comp.os.linux.* about 1-2 months ago. It's caused
by a bash bug, and a replacement script is available at the RedHat site (don't
ask me where exacly). And yes, the bash bug WILL be fixed. The modified script
is just a temp fix.

Udi


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