From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 14 23:54: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3104714F0C for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 23:54:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA27708; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 08:53:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: kip@lyris.com Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , chad@DCFinc.com, nick@kolia.north.gencon.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: open files References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 15 Jun 1999 08:53:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: kip@lyris.com's message of "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:59:46 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 11 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG kip@lyris.com writes: > I am sorry, but I don't see any files in there other than Makefile. When I > grep down the hierarchy for kern.maxfiles I eventually get "/usr/bin/grep: > Argument list too long". Is there a specific file somewhere in there? No. Don't use glob patterns; use find and xargs. And don't grep for 'kern.maxfiles', but for 'SYSCTL.*maxfiles'. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message