From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 00:03:01 2005 Return-Path: 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 8A54316A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:03:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out011.verizon.net (out011pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01D043D2D for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:03:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reso3w83@verizon.net) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.26.84.7]) by out011.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20050121000300.RUXF4717.out011.verizon.net@ringworm.mechee.com>; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:03:00 -0600 Received: by ringworm.mechee.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B73BC2CE7CA; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:59:24 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:59:22 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200501202338.j0KNc3tM007836@mail-core.space2u.com> In-Reply-To: <200501202338.j0KNc3tM007836@mail-core.space2u.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501201559.23150.reso3w83@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out011.verizon.net from [4.26.84.7] at Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:03:00 -0600 cc: Joachim Dagerot Subject: Re: "Too many open files" (Critical, have only one session left) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:03:01 -0000 On Thursday 20 January 2005 03:38 pm, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > >> I have got it before and took appropriate steps using the ideas > >> and tips from you guys. Now I have it again: > >> > >> Current situation on my head-less system is that I do have a > >> single SSH session up. Unfortunately it's not authenticated as > >> ROOT but as an ordinary user. > >> > >> When I try a "ls" I get : > >> > >> $ ls > >> ls: .: Too many open files in system > >> > >> Trying a su gives: > >> $ su > >> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Cannot open "/usr/lib/libutil.so.3" > >> > >> > >> I have a fairly huge RAID-5 system thatdislikes a power shutdown > >> so I rather want to reboot the machine manually. I certainly need > >> som help here and also more help on how to avoid this problem in > >> the future. > > > >I don't remember a previous message from you, but here is a link you > >may find helpful: > > > >http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/09/26/Big_Scary_Daemons.html?pa > >ge=1 > > Good tip, unforunately I can't even run fstab: > $ su > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Cannot open "/usr/lib/libutil.so.3" You mean you can't run fstat right? > > I seam to be stucked. Is there a way to do a su for a specific > program. I can't run 'su' but when I try shutdwon: > > $ shutdown -r now > -bash: /sbin/shutdown: Permission denied > > Looks like it's possible to run shutdown if I only hade the right > permission... > Can you run ps -aux and maybe kill some processes? I know it's unlikely but its the only thing I can think of, hopefully someone who knows more will offer better suggestions. -Mike