nginx worker process wont start

[rkmr.em at gmail.com]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:04:21AM -0700, rkmr.em at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> i get this error and it fails to start, i have 8GB free ram
> http://linux.die.net/man/2/setuid
>
> EAGAIN
>    The uid does not match the current uid and uid brings process
>    over it's NPROC rlimit.

more /etc/passwd | grep mark
mark:x:500:500::/home/mark:/bin/bash

from nginx configure

user  mark;
worker_processes  1;

and this is how i start nginx
sudo /opt/local/sbin/nginx -c
/home/mark/work/infrastructure/nginx_staticfarm.conf


am i doing something wrong?

> It's the same error that was returned to fork()
>
> EAGAIN
>    It was not possible to create a new process because the caller's
>    RLIMIT_NPROC resource limit was encountered. To exceed this limit,
>    the process must have either the CAP_SYS_ADMIN or the CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
>    capability.

do you know how do I give these capabilities to the processes?