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On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, O. Hartmann wrote:

> What is going wrong? What does the error ".: Out of file descriptor"
> mean? Where is the place or stage it could occur?

  It means that some program tried to get a file descriptor to open a
file, and it failed.  You should check the total number of file
descriptors with "pstat -T".  The display is "x/y files", where x is
currently used number of descriptors, and y is the maximum.  The maximum
should be several thousand (especially for servers and workstations that
are going to be running a lot of stuff).

> Well, if someone is out there who has any idea, please give me a sign.
> I try to run sendmail to get infos and email ...
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Gruss O. Hartmann
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Tom


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