From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 9 8: 1:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from daffy.bgcc.com (daffy.bgcc.com [209.84.79.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7725A152AE for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:01:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from litchfieldm@bgcc.com) Received: from MARVIN (marvin.bgcc.com [209.84.79.23]) by daffy.bgcc.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id LAA11001 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:10:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <003601bf2acb$b052b040$174f54d1@BGCC.COM> Reply-To: "Mark Litchfield" From: "Mark Litchfield" To: Subject: System recovery Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:01:30 -0500 Organization: Bennett Group Computer Consultants MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm fairly new to Unix. I know enough to be dangerous. I recently installed FreeBSD 3.2 and was setting up a web server. I managed to get the IP Aliases and everything to work and it was running like a champ. I let it go at that over the recent weekend. When I went to log in on Monday, I couldn't get any of the web pages. So I checked the IP settings and the httpd.conf. I tried to restarting Apache. I had also added the IP's to the rc.conf file before the weekend. When I noticed that the IP's weren't showing up. I rebooted from the prompt and the system restarted. Then a funny thing happened. It went along fine with the reboot then I got an error message... ".:Out of file descriptors." The next line asked me for the path to a shell application or press Enter for /bin/sh. I am re-installing the OS now. What I am curious about is, Is there a way to recover from that error without re-installing and without restoring a backup? Is there anything I can do to help prevent this from happening again? I looked all through my " The Complete FreeBSD" book and it doesn't discuss a whole lot of error prevention or crash prevention. I love the OS and I am hooked on Linux as well. I chose to run FreeBSD as a web server and Linux as a Firewall. The two work well together and I wouldn't have it any other way. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks. Mark Litchfield To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message