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From: Bala Periasamy <bala@cst.com.au>
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Subject: kernel messages
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I am getting this in my /var/log/messages

/kernel  file: table is full

ftpd[4887]: /etc/spwd.db: Too many open files in system

Do to which ftpd login is refused.

any help

cheers
bala@cst.com.au