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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Too many files open.
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<<On Mon, 11 Mar 1996 00:30:12 -0500 (EST), Network Coordinator <nc@ai.net> said:

> 	Trying to run named, I get a socket error "too many files open" 
> in /var/log/messages. There are over 2000 files available, and very few 
> <200 are used.

You have too many aliases.

-GAWollman

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