From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 25 23:11:50 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA11228 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:11:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA11222 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:11:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.136]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id XAA15058 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:11:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00395; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:03:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:03:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Francis Percival C. Favoreal" cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Too many open files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Francis Percival C. Favoreal wrote: > > I notice that when I try to reload the DNS by issuing a > > # kill -HUP 70 > > I receive the error below, > > named[70]: socket(SOCK_DGRAM): Too many open files - exiting > > The process named is no longer running because of this error I think. I > have to reboot just to reload the DNS. I thought I answered this. Oh well.... Before running named run: limit openfiles=128 or ulimit to unlock the shell resource limits. See the mail archives for full details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major