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Re: Open File Limit



On Friday, May 02, 2003 1:15 AM [GMT+0800=SGT],
Matthew Walkup <matt@gforcehosting.com> wrote:

> May  1 08:50:26 a-web pop3d[14225]: connect from x.x.x.x
> May  1 08:50:26 a-web pop3d[14225]: error: cannot execute
> /usr/sbin/pop3d: Too many open files in system
> May  1 08:51:05 a-web pop3d[14346]: connect from x.x.x.x
> May  1 08:51:05 a-web pop3d[14346]: error: cannot execute
> /usr/sbin/pop3d: Too many open files in system
> May  1 15:51:14 a-web inetd[14372]: getpwnam: mail: No such user
> May  1 15:51:27 a-web inetd[14393]: getpwnam: cyrus: No such
> user May  1 15:51:31 a-web inetd[14400]: getpwnam: cyrus: No
> such user May  1 15:51:44 a-web inetd[14419]: getpwnam: cyrus:
> No such user May  1 15:51:50 a-web inetd[14430]: getpwnam:
> cyrus: No such user
>
> During this time, websites are available.  FTP, SSH, and email
> are down.  I don't know why there is a 7 hour jump in logs (I
> did not remove any logs between 08:51 and 15:51).  When I got
> the machine rebooted, it wasn't even 9 am (and this message
> will be sent by 10:30 am).

You are 7hrs away from GMT?  One datestamp is local time, the other is
the kernel's GMT time.

--
Sanjeev



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