From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 24 23:40: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 622EE15227 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 20970 invoked from network); 25 Aug 1999 06:39:18 -0000 Received: from toy.chip-web.com (@172.16.1.30) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 25 Aug 1999 06:39:18 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:38:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Ludwig Pummer X-Sender: ludwigp@toy.chip-web.com To: Roelof Osinga Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Did I lose mail? In-Reply-To: <37C357F5.CA7FC470@nisser.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Roelof Osinga wrote: > As well as several other assorted complaints among which where panicy > messages from sendmail. Which of course makes me wonder whether I did > lose any mail or did it yet manage to convey the imminent failure to > the other party? I can't say. I use qmail. I know that qmail stores files safely and successfully to disk before telling the remote server that it got the mail. > The question now becomes what is the best way to up the limit? I > could give "sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=3600" to set it to a somewhat > more egrecious value, though not generous by far. Would it survive, > say, a reboot? What are my other options? Are there more of these > kind of gotchas? It won't survive a reboot unless you set it in your kernel or you could stick your "sysctl -w ..." line into /etc/rc.local. maxfiles is set to 2*(20+16*MAXUSERS), and MAXUSERS is set in your kernel config. You can also seperately define MAXFILES using an "options" line in kernel config. --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message