Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:11:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> 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: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970701191028.28800A-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199707012317.AAA00504@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > [.....] > > 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.... > > > Since it seems to happen while doing a "make world", it shouldn't be a problem, because most people login to do a make world. Tom
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