From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 6:36:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.aug.edu (CALYPSO.aug.edu [134.224.1.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5138337B401 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 06:36:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from csvsdd2.aug.edu (CSVSDD2.aug.edu [134.224.1.55]) by ns1.aug.edu (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA22045 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:31:51 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011031093001.02bda9b8@ns1.aug.edu> X-Sender: csvsdd@ns1.aug.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:39:59 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Steven Duckworth Subject: Sendmail Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All, I am currently converting my e-mail gateway server from a Solaris 2.7 box to a FreeBSD 4.2 box. After setting up the BSD box I did some basic testing and found the system to be functioning properly. We have a majordomo server which has several mailing lists with 500-1000 users on some of the lists. The problem I have is when someone sends something to a list with many users I get the error "To many open files in system". Issuing the command sysctl -a I see that the kern.maxfiles is 1064. Does anyone have any experience with tweeking these settings for use with sendmail? Machine Specs: FreeBSD 4.2 512 MB 900MHz Sendmail 8.11.5 Bind 9.1.3 Thanks ____________________________________________________________________ Steven D. Duckworth Coordinator of Network Services Augusta State University 2500 Walton Way Augusta, GA. 30904 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message