From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 3 11:40:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08800 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08698 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:39:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA18833; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 13:39:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 13:39:27 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Kris Kirby , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fetchmail Problem Message-ID: <19981003133927.A18810@emsphone.com> References: <36156F6E.5694D744@airnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.3i In-Reply-To: <36156F6E.5694D744@airnet.net>; from "Kris Kirby" on Fri Oct 2 19:27:26 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 02), Kris Kirby said: > This is exactly how it appeared: > > reading message 90 of 298 (4231 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 Can't > create transcript file xfTAA00567: Too many open files in system > fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 Can't open /dev/null: Too many open files in > system > > Restarting fetchmail just finished the job. This has happened once or > twice. Is this a serious misconfiguration or do I need to bump something > a bit? You probably just need to bump maxusers in your kernel config. What does a pstat -T print? If the current number of files is near the max, you can adjust it on the fly by running "sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=####". If you don't want to rebuild your kernel, you can stick the sysctl in rc.local so it runs every time the system is rebooted. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message