Cannot initialize CGI exec subsystem - Sun ONE Web Server 6.1

Question

Hello,
I have a problem connecting to a running admin server on Solaris 9. Startup is as follows:
(error log)
[12/Mar/2004:11:06:43] info ( 2579): CORE1116: Sun ONE Web Server 6.1 B08/22/2003 12:37
[12/Mar/2004:11:06:43] info ( 2580): CORE3016: daemon is running as super-user
[12/Mar/2004:11:06:47] info ( 2580): CORE5076: Using [Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM, Version 1.4.1_03] from
[Sun Microsystems Inc.]
[12/Mar/2004:11:06:49] info ( 2580): WEB0100: Loading web module in virtual server [vs-admin] at [/admin-
app]
[12/Mar/2004:11:06:56] info ( 2580): HTTP3072: [LS ls1] http://lab1:84 ready to accept requests
[12/Mar/2004:11:06:56] info ( 2580): CORE3274: successful server startup
Then, when I try to connect to it with the browser it results with an error:
[12/Mar/2004:11:09:31] failure ( 2580): cgi_init reports: HTTP4047: could not initialize CGI subsystem (Cgistub path ../../bin/https/bin/Cgistub), err fork() failure [Not enough space]
[12/Mar/2004:11:09:31] failure ( 2580): for host 10.101.12.146 trying to GET /https-admserv/bin/index, cgi_start_exec reports: HTTP4066: cannot initialize CGI exec subsystem
What is the meaning of '...not enough space' ?
The port itself is still listening:
*.84 *.* 0 0 49152 0 LISTEN
I must add that the server itself has been already successfully installed, ealier tests with the admserv were fine. But all of a sudden I can't get rid of this error, I made no changes except several reboots.
Regards Nick

Answer 1

Hello trejo.cj,
space in /tmp seems not to be the problem:
! root@lab1:/tmp# df -k
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0     479872   99067  332818    23%    /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6    4031059  986895 3003854    25%    /usr
/proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4    1984564 1250344  674684    65%    /var
swap                   43168      16   43152     1%    /var/run
swap                   59064   15912   43152    27%    /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5    8063580 4078907 3904038    52%    /opt
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7    15119586 3999501 10968890    27%    /export/home
ls -la /tmp
prw-r-----   1 cics     cics           0 Mar 16 12:00 .LAB1REG.fifo
drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         104 Mar 16 11:28 .X11-pipe
drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         104 Mar 16 11:28 .X11-unix
drwx--x--x   2 cics     cics         106 Mar 16 12:10 EFC1385
drwx--x--x   2 Slab1    cics         106 Mar 16 12:00 EFS945
drwx------   2 netlife  netlife      264 Mar 16 11:56 https-admintool-9d93b4d6
drwx------   2 root     other        207 Mar 16 11:54 https-admserv-9d93b4d6
drwx------   2 netlife  netlife      162 Mar 16 11:54 https-btv-9d93b4d6
-r--r--r--   1 root     root           0 Mar 16 11:28 llbdbase.dat
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Mar 16 11:52 lock.https-admintool.84
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Mar 16 11:52 lock.https-admserv.84
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Mar 16 11:52 lock.https-btv.84
! root@lab1:/tmp# cd https-admintool-9d93b4d6
! root@lab1:/tmp/https-admintool-9d93b4d6# ls -la
srwxrwxrwx   1 netlife  netlife        0 Mar 16 11:56 .cgistub_676
srwxrwxrwx   1 root     other          0 Mar 16 11:54 iwsadmin.675
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other     720896 Mar 16 12:05 iwsstats.https-admintool
srwxr-xr-x   1 root     other          0 Mar 16 11:54 iwswatchdog.674
The file iwsstats.https-admintool is a binary. Are there any hints inside why the server gives this error? If yes, can it be displayed?
I my case I have installed a virtual server named admintool, this is owned by user netlife.
Now I changed in the Server Manager in the CGI settings > Listen Sockets the info about CGI user and CGI group according to the netlife user.
Right now it works, so I will watch out for further occurences.
Nick