Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 23:01:22 -0400 From: "Nikolai E. Wendorf" <nick@kolia.north.gencon.com> To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: open files Message-ID: <376B0802.FF9C17E1@kolia.north.gencon.com>
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"Nikolai E. Wendorf" wrote:
>
> Greetings All,
>
> A friend recently asked about the following:
>
> System is 3.2-RELEASE, and this keeps coming up in /var/log/messages:
>
> Jun 13 07:32:52 fw1 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
> Jun 13 07:32:52 fw1 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
>
> Kernel was built for 32 users, it is a firewall only
> machine with 0 users. On previous 2.2.8 system I used
> to build the kernel with:
> options CHILD_MAX=384
> options OPEN_MAX=512
>
> I believe the answer lies in login.conf but since I've not gone to the 3.
> yet I thought a sanity check was in order.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
Thanks for all your help gents,
The fix was installing a good login.conf, he hadn't seen a new one for quite
a while.....
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Nikolai E. Wendorf, KJ4RD
nick@kolia.north.gencon.com
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