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Date:      Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:11:58 +0100 (CET)
From:      "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
To:        Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Cc:        tcobb@staff.circle.net, jose@we.lc.ehu.es, tom@uniserve.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Out of file descriptor error 3.1-BETA 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902150909240.2696-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
In-Reply-To: <199902150057.LAA07585@lightning.itga.com.au>

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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Gregory Bond wrote:

> > rc.conf and rc.conf.local, but I never figured out that sucking in it
> > twice a time could cause these problems ...
> 
> I suspect you weren't sucking it in twice, but an infinite number of times, so 
> you got "out of file descriptors" when the poor old shell got up to a few 
> thousand copies!
> 
> i.e. system scripts source /etc/default/rc.conf
> 	which does it's stuff and sources /etc/rc.conf
> 		which is the same script, 
> 		so it does it's stuff and sources /etc/rc.conf
> 			which is the same script, 
> 			so it does it's stuff and sources /etc/rc.conf
> 
> etc.
> 
> 
> 
Well, I think that's the more precise explanation  and I think, after
looking what's going on, the right way of tracking down what has been
going on. Thanks a lot for those who helped to find the problem.
Sure, it was simple, but in the most cases those things which are
the nearest are not subject of the first rsearch ...

Best wishes,
Oliver
Gruss O. Hartmann
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