On 4/29/2011 9:33 AM, Stephen Gelman wrote:
> I am running BackupPC 3.2.0.  The line where it fails is:
>
> if ( !defined($pid = open(CHILD, "-|")) ) {
>
> So it looks like it is attempting to fork...

The usual (perhaps only?) reason for not being able to fork is that you 
have run out of resources or hit an OS-imposed limit 
(memory/processes/file descriptors, etc.).   Can you raise those limits 
for the backuppc user?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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