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

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:25:44 -0400
Jason Mitchell <jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I'm surprised it doesn't.  However, it is of necessity a shell
built-in, so it will be documented in sh(1).

Anyway -- run 'ulimit -a' to get the list of values.  The first letter
of each line is a switch to change that value.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb