On 19-Apr-01 at 11:38:06 Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, John Horne wrote:
>> On 19-Apr-01 at 10:32:26 Florian Laws wrote:
>> > One error message of exim itself:
>> > 2001-04-19 11:37:15 14qAsF-0000V4-01 exec of
>> > exim -Mc failed: Too many open files in system
>> >
>> Not sure why the manual (page 85) says to 'reduce' the value if you get
>> an error message.
>
> Because that will make Exim use fewer file descriptors!
>
Of course :-) I was reading it (the manual and the error message!) the wrong
way - "running out of file descriptors so 'increase' the number exim can
use". Not the same thing. Back to sleep for me I think...:-)
John.
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