file descriptors on FreeBSD

[Tony Finch]

Craig Bates <c.bates at COMNET.CO.NZ> wrote:
>
>Your suggestion seemed to solve the problem for about 6 hours and now it is
>doing the same thing again:(  I also rebooted the box after I made the
>changes.  MailScanner processes are also dying again.  So I'm sure that the
>problem of MailScanner dying and Sendmail complaining are one and the same
>problem.
>
>Is it possible that something is using up resources and after a few hours,
>nothing is left?

Sounds like a file descriptor leak. Try running fstat to see which
programs have files open, or if you have lsof installed you can get
the files' pathnames too.

Tony.
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