Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:01:30 -0500 From: "Mark Litchfield" <litchfieldm@bgcc.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: System recovery Message-ID: <003601bf2acb$b052b040$174f54d1@BGCC.COM>
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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
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