Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 22:46:11 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Jeff Beley <jeffb@cameron.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file descriptors Message-ID: <20000515224611.Z10128@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000515084438.A56866@daemon9.cameron.edu> References: <20000515084438.A56866@daemon9.cameron.edu>
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Jeff Beley wrote:
> I get the following message when I boot up my FreeBSD-4.0 STABLE box:
>
> file: table is full
>
> What exactly does this mean, how do I fix it?
Did you by any chance copy /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf without
making any changes? You shouldn't do that, as it will cause an infinite
loop where /etc/rc.conf keeps sourcing itself, running out of file
descriptors and giving that error message (the error message means the
table within the kernel used to hold open file descriptors is full).
Read the warning at the top of /etc/defaults/rc.conf:
# A common mistake is to copy the contents of this file into one of the
# ${rc_conf_files} files (e.g. /etc/rc.conf). That does not work, because
# this file ends up recursing on itself. The ${rc_conf_files} files should
# only contain values which override values set in this file.
If this isn't what you did, you'll have to give more information, e.g.
what are the few lines printed before this error occurs? This should
help someone track down what's going wrong.
--
Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D
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