Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:17:17 +1000 From: Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.gov.au> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lame DNS question (can't set maxfiles to default after upgrade to Bind 8.2.4/FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p3) Message-ID: <20020426141717.F9401@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10204252002120.6896-100000@misery.sdf.com>; from tom@sdf.com on Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:05:13PM -0700 References: <20020426131917.C9401@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10204252002120.6896-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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Dear Sir,
Thanks for your reply.
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:05:13PM -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Stanley Hopcroft wrote:
>
> ...
> > Apr 26 12:38:00 wins named[22746]: reloading nameserver
> > Apr 26 12:38:00 wins named[22746]: setrlimit(max number of open files):
> > Operation not permitted
> > Apr 26 12:38:00 wins named[22746]: Ready to answer queries.
>
> Only root can use setrlimit() to raise the maximum (hard) limit. Do you
> know how high named is trying to set the limit?
>
From the files section of man 5 named.conf,
'The maximum number of files the server may have open concurrently. The
default value is unlimited.'
> > On other words, it seems highly unlikely that replication will work.
> >
> > I have added an entry for BIND to login.conf and remade the
> > login database (with cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf )
Here is the new entry.
bind:\
:tc=default:
#
# Root can always login
#
It seems to be in the database.
tsitc2> strings /etc/login.conf.db | grep bind
bind: : :passwd_format=md5: :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:
:welcome=/etc/motd:
:setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES: :path=/sbin
/bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin
/usr/X11R6/bin ~/bin: :nologin=/var/run/nologin:
:cputime=unlimited: :datasize=unlimited: :stacksize=unlimited:
:memorylocked=unlimited: :memoryuse=unlimited:
:filesize=unlimited: :coredumpsize=unlimited:
:openfiles=unlimited: :maxproc=unlimited: :sbsize=unlimited:
:priority=0: :ignoretime@: :umask=022:
bind
tsitc2>
> Quite likely this all you need to do. named will not have to
> setrlimit() to a higher limit, if the existing limit is ok, right?
>
> Tom
>
Unfortunately this is what I have done but it doesn't help.
Yours sincerely.
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Stanley Hopcroft Network Specialist
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continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'
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