Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:38:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Did I lose mail? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908242329270.75417-100000@toy.chip-web.com> In-Reply-To: <37C357F5.CA7FC470@nisser.com>
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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
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