Re: slapd: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.allow: Too many open files

[David <davidke@whidbey.net>]

Amir Saad wrote:
> I'm running OpenLDAP 2.3.30-5 on Debian 4. I checked the syslog and I 
> found the following errors:
> slapd: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.allow: Too many open files
> slapd: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.deny: Too many open files
>
> Please advice.
>
> Thanks
>
> Amir
>
>
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The reason for this error is you ran out of file descriptors for the 
slapd process.  The default is 1024 for most systems.  To up it for just 
slapd you can add:
ulimit -n XXX
Where XXX is the number of file descriptors you want to allow, I use 
8192.  Just add this line into the init script for slapd before you 
start slapd and this should resolve your issue.

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David
Whidbey Telecom Internet and Broadband
Software Engineer