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Subject: Re: Hello all
To: jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM (Jonathan M. Bresler)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 22:55:12 +0100 (MET)
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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> On Fri, 3 Nov 1995, Rob Snow wrote:
> 
> 	log files building up..??  log less or log to a non-root 
> partition.   logging to the root partition is like lighting a fuse and 
> remembering to snuff it before....well....before you get snuffed!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 2) On my return, yesterday, I found my console window had the following
> > messages in it.
> > 
> > Nov  2 17:05:41 oasis last message repeated 4 times
> > Nov  2 20:16:57 oasis /kernel: file: table is full
> > Nov  2 20:16:58 oasis last message repeated 28 times
> > Nov  2 20:18:43 oasis last message repeated 54 times
> > Nov  2 23:14:12 oasis /kernel: file: table is full

What is your maxusers value? Are you running a news server? Or some
other resource intense service? It looks like a kernel resource gets
exhausted.


> > 
> > How would I avoid this problem in the future?
> > 
> > (The second problem that is.  I had Melissa affix a suitable piece of
> > cardboard over the power switch with liberal amounts of duct tape to 
> > solve the first  :-)  )
> > 
> > 
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > Rob Snow                                            Powered by FreeBSD
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> > 
> > 
> 
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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de