Re: ".: Out of file descriptors" ????

The Bourne-shell on this system doesn't send a terminal emulation
default option to the console in single user mode, but only in
multi-user mode, at least sh used to on these two drives that have the
same netbsd snapshot. Single user mode just prompts for user input of
the terminal type which i've been told is vt220.


On Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:01:32 -0700 (PDT) Colin Wood said:
> > Varily did Brian previously write...
> > Ooops! i meant "out of file descriptors". Problem's still there--help!
> >                        ^^^^
> > That may sound trivial, but my guess is that a note like this means some
> > files need to get dumped or deleated.  Could that be so?
> > 
> > > A Q700 running multiuser netbsd 1.2G (060197 current) system on a jaz 
> > > removeable disk no longer gives an option of choosing [vt220] anymore. 
> > > After the "Welcome to NetBSD" it now says,
[snip]
> > > I've been doing lots of reboots and using "Shutdown now" and Cmd+d; I
> > > also have chat script debugging on for trouble shooting ppp (with PAP),
> > > so the /var/log/ has lots of comments. doesn't debugging go to the /tmp 
> > > directory which gets emptied each reboot? Attempting ppp in X11R6 has been
> > > easier by killing an xterm rather than reboot. 
> 
> Hmmm...the "out of file descriptors" I think occurs because of per process
> limits on the number of open file descriptors, although there is a system
> limit on them as well.  It may be that you have some kind of daemon
> process that is going out of control and opening a zillion files????  I
> assume that this behavior doesn't happen under single-user?