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Subject: Re: Earlier problems with ppp and 'Too many open files' 
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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
> 
> 

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....