From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 20 7:29:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1CDE37B7FD for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:29:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kcilink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F5DE89A for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:29:05 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kcilink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA30343; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:29:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera@kci.kcilink.com) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14550.17345.705573.306696@onceler.kcilink.com> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:29:05 -0500 (EST) To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... In-Reply-To: References: <200003181539.PAA21176@pancake.earlsfort.iol.ie> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "BK" == Brad Knowles writes: BK> At 3:39 PM +0000 2000/3/18, Nick Hilliard wrote: >> You've run "cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf", haven't you? I know this is pretty >> basic, and am embarrassed to even suggest it, but I've been inattentive >> enough to be caught by this once or twice... :-( BK> No, I hadn't. I wasn't even aware that this sort of thing was BK> necessary, especially when you don't make any changes at all to BK> /etc/login.conf from the default that gets installed. I hadn't known this either. Reading the login.conf man page doesn't reveal this on a 3.4-STABLE system, and that same system does not have a /etc/login.conf.db file. What are the rules for seaching a DB cap file rather than a flat cap file? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 PGP & MIME spoken here http://www.kciLink.com/home/khera/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message