[lug] too many open files?

Sean Reifschneider jafo at tummy.com
Thu Jun 14 23:08:32 MDT 2001


On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:02:35PM -0600, David Trowbridge wrote:
>How long has this machine been up? rhnsd leaks file descriptors, so if its
>been running for a long amount of time, you'd get the error you see there.

The key being that it *USED* to leak file-descriptors.  They had it fixed
quickly enough that if you were actually USING the up2date stuff it would
have been fixed before it was a problem.  It was an issue when it was
running but was unused.

Sean
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