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Re: Open File Limit



On Thu, 1 May 2003, Matthew Walkup wrote:

> However, every morning, I run a Perl script that processes all of my apache
> logs into webalizer.  I believe it is this script, that cause me to get
> several errors in the /var/log/daemon.log (The cron.daily is run at
> 06:25:00):
> May  1 06:32:40 a-web inetd[17351]: getpwnam: mail: No such user
> May  1 06:32:42 a-web inetd[17354]: getpwnam: cyrus: No such user
> <-- several logs removed, just named information -->
> May  1 08:45:55 a-web inetd[13332]: execv /usr/sbin/exim: Too many open
> files in system
> May  1 08:45:56 a-web inetd[13336]: execv /usr/sbin/exim: Too many open
> files in system

Try

 echo bignumber > /proc/sys/fs/file-max

Rgds

Rus
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