From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 2:29:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E5BF37B400 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 02:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D11E43E70 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 02:29:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g769TMxC005110; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:29:22 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g769TLps005109; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:29:21 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:29:21 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Charles K. MacKay" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What, in general, does "bad fd" mean? Message-ID: <20020806092921.GA5082@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 04:00:26AM -0400, Charles K. MacKay wrote: [...] > We are getting a "bad fd" error message when we try to restart a virus > scanner. Bad fd = Bad file descriptor. > > What, in general, does this mean? What should we correct? Reference? It usually means that the code is bad (in your case the virus scanner). This can also be due to misconfiguration of some/all of the software involved. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If everything's under control, you're going too slow" - Mario Andretti To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message