I came in to work this mornign to find this message in the logs. There were only a handful of users hitting news, and the disk space was at 73%. Solaris 2.6, Mar 20 20:29:07 Virginia nntpcached[10219]: nntpcache.c:485:Too many open files: socketpair() failed Mar 20 20:29:30 Virginia nntpcached[10219]: nntpcache.c:1282:Too many open files: accept() failed Mar 20 20:29:31 Virginia nntpcached[10219]: nntpcache.c:485:Too many open files: socketpair() failed Mar 20 20:32:14 Virginia nntpcached[10219]: nntpcache.c:1282:Too many open files: accept() failed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marius Schaefer" <mschaefer@tuvps.co.jp> To: <> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 4:37 AM Subject: NNTPC: nntpcache configuration > > OK, thanks a lot! > But how can I disable Ident lookups? > > in my config I found this: > > # perform identd lookups > rfc931 no > > # timeout waitung for ident lookups > rfc9311Timeout 5 > > so does it mean it is allready disalbed? > thx > marius > ---------- Original Text ---------- > > From: "Faye Pearson" <faye@clara.net>, on 3/20/01 1:39 AM: > > Faye Pearson [faye@clara.net] wrote: > > My first guess would be that you've left "ident" (port 113) lookups enabled > in the > > config and most Windows machines don't run ident unless you're running an irc > client > > and so they are timing out. > > Whoops. just noticed this didn't go to the list! Hope you found the > above useful anyway. > > Sorry for the last bit :) > > > Faye > > -- > Faye Pearson, > Software Development Manager, > ClaraNET Ltd. Tel 020 7903 3000 > > When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all. > -- Roger Zelazny, "Doorways in the Sand" > > >
