From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 23:26:16 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 1 23:26:14 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www3.pacific-pages.com (www3.pacific-pages.com [192.41.48.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B936137B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 23:26:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from d.tracker ([216.191.60.215]) by www3.pacific-pages.com (8.8.5) id AAA11925; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 00:26:06 -0700 (MST) Received: (from david@localhost) by d.tracker (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA01318 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 02:26:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 02:24:31 -0500 From: David Banning To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: too many files open? Message-ID: <20010102022430.A1250@www3.pacific-pages.com> Reply-To: David Banning Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All of a sudden samba stopped working. I notice the smbd and nmdb daemons are not staying loaded. Here is what /var/log/messages says on boot; n 2 01:25:00 d named[118]: starting. named 8.2.2-P5-NOESW Mon Mar 20 20:43:5 4 GMT 2000 root@monster.cdrom.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named Jan 2 01:25:00 d named[118]: limit files set to fdlimit (1024) Jan 2 01:25:00 d named[119]: Ready to answer queries. Jan 2 01:25:01 d /kernel: dc0: DAD complete for fe80:0001::0220:78ff:fe0e:13d6 - no duplicates found Jan 2 01:25:02 d lpd[144]: restarted Jan 2 01:26:11 d syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system: Too many open files in system Jan 2 01:26:11 d syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Jan 2 01:26:11 d syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Jan 2 01:26:11 d /kernel: file: table is full Jan 2 01:26:14 d last message repeated 4 times Jan 2 01:27:01 d rshd[300]: auth_pam: Permission denied Jan 2 01:27:01 d rshd[300]: PAM authentication failed Jan 2 01:29:01 d su: david to root on /dev/ttyp0 any ideas? Are the too many files linked to the fdlimit? If so should I just raise fdlimit? how? Is this why the samba daemons won't get running? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message