[LUAU] Sendmail Strangeness
Chris Wong
wongc at math.ed.hawaii.edu
Tue Feb 23 16:08:28 PST 1999
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, The Tuba God wrote:
> >I run it on a LAN... no problems with it.... I'm stumped. Any logs?
>
> Yes indeed -- but not in the mail log didn't even think to look in the
> syslog before... (whoops)
>
> In Syslog:
>
> Feb 23 16:56:21 wso sendmail[13817]: QAA13803: SYSERR(root): Cannot open
> hash da
> tabase /etc/aliases.db: Too many open files in system
> Feb 23 16:56:21 wso sendmail[13817]: QAA13803: SYSERR(UID0): Can't create
> transc
> ript file xfQAA13803: Too many open files in system
> Feb 23 16:56:21 wso sendmail[13817]: QAA13803: SYSERR(UID0): Can't open
> /dev/nul
> l: Too many open files in system
Well that settles that. Sendmail can't open a file descriptor to connect
to DNS.
Weird.
> I guess that might have something to do with it... Is the max number of
> files to have open something that's stored in the kernel? How would I
> change it? And, what should I change it to (we run a fairly large web
> server and shell server on this machine -- plenty of free memory)?
It's almost definately related to that. However, should support sufficent
amounts of file descriptors ... what else is running on it???
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