Error: Too Many Open files
I am running debian linux 1.2, when I log in from the console or telnet,
I get an error on running fortune:
/usr/share/games/fortunes/art.dat: Too many open files
I also get this error whenever I try to run Netscape, except relating to
the java library files (instead of art.dat):
/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar: Too many open files
The rest of the system seems to be operating normally. I do not know
what was changed when this started, several things were added at once
(IP Masquerading and samba), but I have added the same packages on other
systems without geting this error message.
Uptime gives:
12:05am up 7 days, 4:41h, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
Free shows:
free total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 46800 41468 5332 13556 16360 17520
-/+ buffers: 7588 39212
Swap: 65516 60 65456
If it is related to file permissions, what are the default permissions
of the fortune program, and related files?
I would greatly appreciate any light shed on this.
thanks in advance!
troy
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