From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 2:29:34 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 6D15837B401 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 02:29:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from supernova.ulimit.org (j227.cleaton.net [194.112.42.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582D543E6E for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 02:29:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@ulimit.org) Received: from localhost.localdomain (supernova.ulimit.org [194.112.42.227]) by localhost.ulimit.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01DE730370; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:29:31 +0100 (BST) Received: by supernova.ulimit.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D01FB30603; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:29:30 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:29:30 +0100 From: Michael Pye To: "Charles K. MacKay" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What, in general, does "bad fd" mean? Message-ID: <20020806102930.A31847@ulimit.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ckmackay@ptdprolog.net on Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 04:00:26AM -0400 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 File Descriptor ? Could be trying to access a file that in cannot (it doesn't exist, incorrect file permissions, corrupted) at a guess. -- Michael Pye To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message