[lug] too many open files?

[Deva Samartha]

run:

lsof | awk -F\  '{printf("%s\n",$1)}' | sort | uniq -c | sort

to find the culprit

At 03:51 PM 6/14/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Jun 13 16:01:26 ed-penguin rhnsd[658]: Could not create pipe for forking
>process
>; Too many open files
>
>i am getting this message sent to root on a machine that was just thrown
>into my ownership. this sounds familiar, but i can't place what is causing
>this.