Re: syslogd: ... : Too many open files

[Jason Mitchell <jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost>]

That did the trick, thanks! Since ulimit doesn't have a man page, would 
you mind explaining what the -n switch does? I tried ulimit 256 before I 
sent the message, but that didn't work.

Thanks again,

Jason M.

Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:39:45 -0400
> Jason Mitchell <jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> >     I'm attempting to set up syslogd to log messages from roughly 65
> > IP addresses to 65 different files. But when I attempt to run
> > syslogd, it complains of "Too many open files" around file #58. This
> > error also prevents it from opening a socket to listen on UDP port
> > 514. I'm running NetBSD 3.1, but I've compiled the syslogd from 4.0
> > and the problem is there as well and there's no newer version in CVS.
> > I've looked at the code, but I can't tell where the limit on open
> > files comes from. I've tried increasing kern.maxfiles to 4000, with
> > no effect.
> >
> >     
> It's probably a ulimit issue for syslogd. Try putting
>
>         ulimit -n 256
>
> in /etc/rc.conf.d/syslogd and restart it.
>
>
>                 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>
>