Help needed with Solaris file descriptor problem

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Aug 19 21:53:16 IST 2003


Please search the list archives for "solaris file handles".

At 21:28 19/08/2003, you wrote:
>This afternoon we started seeing 'too many open files'
>error messages in the syslog, and our mailscanner
>will not process any more emails. Does anyone know
>what has to be done to fix the problem on Solaris 8 ?
>There was a similar question on the mailing list last
>July, but not an answer. Any help would be appreciated
>because we now have many tens of thousands of stuck
>emails. We are running MailScanner 4.21-9 with Sophos
>and Spamassasin.
>
>
>
>Adrian Barker, Information Systems
>University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
>External phone: (+44) 020 7679  2795,  Fax (+44) 20 7388 5406
>Internal phone: x 32795
>Email: A.Barker at ucl.ac.uk

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