From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 15: 7:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559EA37B401 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:07:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.aplusdata.com (64.83.13.117.dsl117-dhcp-orf.cavtel.net [64.83.13.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90EDE43E77 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:07:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anthonyabby@aplusdata.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] [68.10.250.160] by mail.aplusdata.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.10 ) id AC973A300BA; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 18:07:19 -0400 Subject: Too Many Open FIles From: Anthony Abby To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 30 Aug 2002 18:03:58 -0400 Message-Id: <1030745038.3430.48.camel@laptop.aplusdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was just trying to ftp down the ports-current directory of the freebsd ftp web site. The ftp activity seemed to be going pretty well when I all of a sudden started getting "action failed: too many open files" for every file that was being downloaded. What the heck does that mean?? Anthony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message