Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 00:17:33 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Joseph Stein <joes@spiritone.com>, brian@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Earlier problems with ppp and 'Too many open files' Message-ID: <199707012317.AAA00504@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jul 1997 10:17:06 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970701101435.27671A-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
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> Maybe you should read the manpage for login.conf and set your limits
> higher?
>
> With maxusers set to 32, you the system descriptor table will have over
> a 1000 entries. So unless something you use leaks them, you shouldn't
> have a problem.
As joerg pointed out on usenet (for a completely unrelated reason),
if you don't go through something that calls login_getcap*(), you
don't get the limits.
I wonder, Joseph, are you using ppp w/ pap and avoiding using
getty/login (or using mgetty in "detect" mode) ?
> Tom
>
>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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