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To: Zach Copley <snatcher@arlington.com>
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Subject: Re: Too many files open?? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Aug 1997 04:48:49 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 20:21:15 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> 
> Hi, 
> 
> Recently, I moved my mail server from a Linux system to a FreeBSD 2.2.2
> Release system.
> 
> I keep getting errors about having too many files open.  This has happened
> with both sendmail and pine.  It just happened again!  This time majordomo
> was queueing messages with bulk_mailer to send out to a mailling list. 
> The list has a couple hundred people on it.  Then poof: 
> 
> Aug 18 04:21:50 kiki sendmail[5880]: EAB05880: SYSERR(UID1): queueup:
> cannot create data temp file dfEAB05880, uid=0: Too many open files in
> system
> 
> What gives?  How many files am I allowed to open?  Is there any hope? 
> Please help me.  I don't want to retreat back to Linux for the mail. 
> 
> BTW, in case it helps, the system is a P-120 with Adaptec 7880 SCSI, a 1
> gig SCSI Quantum drive, 32-megs RAM, setup with easy install defaults,
> kernel developer (no X).  Sendmail is 8.8.7. 

If you're using ppp w/ the -alias switch, you may want to get the 
latest version from http://www.freebsd.org/~brian.  Charles Mott 
recently found a descriptor leak (with the help of someone whos name 
eludes me).  It's been fixed in the 970817 archive from above.

> Zach
> 
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