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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: "too many open files" from sendmail Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 19:59:34 +0900 Organization: CET Lines: 17 Message-ID: <314BF096.67CB@cet.co.jp> References: <4i9pgo$p9l@athena.veritas.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a07m.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) CC: rogerk@gueernet.org Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > > I've just converted my system from running smail3 to sendmail, and I > have one niggling problem. > > We have lots of large mailing lists, and I have deliveries failing > with "too many open files" from sendmail. > > How can I increase this safely from the defaults? (We have source, so > recompilation of just about anuthing is possible.) No compilation necessary. sysctl kern.maxfiles sysctl kern.maxvnodes -mh