"Matthew Nuzum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just restarted apache because of some goofy things happening. I had > caused an infinite loop with a PHP script that went awry. Anyway, my log > check gave me some errors like this: > > Mar 22 12:30:02 www in.qpopper[24750]: PAM [dlerror: > /lib/security/pam_deny.so: cannot open shared object file: Too many open > files in system] > > Likewise /var/log/httpd/errors had errors about too many files open. > > My infinite loop was a lot of queries to the postgres database, not > filesystem. > > Would that have caused the above error and are there some other > implications?
Probably so. Check out lsof at http://freshmeat.net/projects/lsof/. The name stands for LiSt Open Files and the program provides useful output for diagnosing problems like this. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
