From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 25 10: 9:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF231594E for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:09:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id WAA17913; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:57:10 +0600 (UDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id WAA00747; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:02:37 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by localhost.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA00548; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:53:40 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:53:40 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@localhost.cgu.chel.su To: Ludwig Pummer Cc: Roelof Osinga , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Did I lose mail? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > 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. yeah, guys ! i wonder how sendmail works under the same circumstances !! could anybody tell me ?! > > > 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message