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To: Joseph Stein <joes@spiritone.com>
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Subject: Re: IIJPPP: Error: [socket|accept]: Too many open files ... ? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jun 1997 00:03:30 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 08:45:56 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> FreeBSD-stable, CVSupp'd at ca. 2300 Hrs Fri, June 20, 1997.  Made world,
> installed new binaries and kernel about 1700 Hrs Sat, June 21.
> 
> This ppp gives me this after being up for almost 75 hours.
> 
> Jun 25 01:32:28 joes ppp[51]: Error: socket: Too many open files
> Jun 25 01:32:28 joes last message repeated 4 times
> Jun 25 22:47:41 joes ppp[51]: Error: socket: Too many open files
> Jun 25 22:57:01 joes ppp[51]: Error: socket: Too many open files
> Jun 25 23:11:24 joes ppp[51]: Error: socket: Too many open files
> Jun 25 23:13:18 joes ppp[51]: Error: accept: Too many open files
> Jun 25 23:13:32 joes last message repeated 5595 times
> Jun 25 23:13:33 joes ppp[51]: Error: socket: Too many open files
> 
> Killed (had to.  Trying to establish a telnet connection to port 3000 
> is what generated the 5595 'accept' messages...) with -HUP, then
> restarted (ppp -auto ispname.)
[.....]
> The /etc/login.conf has been modified slightly (root and daemon have
> inifinity for all limits.)
[.....]

Have you tried backing out your login.conf changes ?  They're the
most suspect that I can see.
-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....