[lug] too many open files?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:51:04PM -0500, charles at lunarmedia.net 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.

You need to apply errata on it -- the redhat up2date stuff had a known file
descriptor leak -- rhn is Red Hat Network -- the update stuff.

Sean
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