Hi! I have had success with logging in + out again which seems to recover the machine -- I always seem to be able to get logged in and to a rootshell and logging out + in again gets rid of the maxproc limit problem Christoph -- 9FED 5C6C E206 B70A 5857 70CA 9655 22B9 D49A E731 Debian Developer | Lisp Hacker | CaCert Assurer