From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 17:30:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.bby.com.au (ns.bby.com.au [192.83.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DBC811234; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:30:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by fw.bby.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) id MAA15128; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:30:10 +1100 (EST) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au(192.168.71.20) via SMTP by fw.bby.com.au, id smtpd015126; Wed Feb 17 01:30:05 1999 Received: from lightning (lightning [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA13556; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:30:04 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199902170130.MAA13556@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: Patrick Seal Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: .: Out of file descriptors In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:32:17 -0500. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:30:04 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 1) make sure you update /etc correctly (use mergemaster from the ports collection). then, 2) make sure your /etc/defaults/rc.conf sources /etc/rc.conf (as distributed) and (the important bit) make sure your /etc/rc.conf (or /etc/rc.conf.local) doesn't then go and source either of these files again! (This often happens if e.g. /etc/defaults/rc.conf gets copied to /etc/rc.conf). This will cause an infinite recursion in the shell processing the rc scripts, which gives rise to the out of file descriptors message. Greg. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message