Thanks Dieter,

To change number of open files permanently on Centos you can edit the nofile (number of files setting) setting in /etc/security/limits.conf

* -  nofile 8192

for example this sets the number of open files to 8192 for all (domains), enforced for both hard and soft limits.

for more info:

man limits.conf

I logged out and back in to make the setting take on my machine.

Cheers, George

On 10 December 2010 11:25, Dieter Kluenter dieter@dkluenter.de wrote:

Am Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:13:22 +0000 schrieb George Siddiqui george@blue-bolt.com:

...

Hi,

I recieved my first of these errrors from openldap server today.

slapd[1648]: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.deny: Too many open files

The faqomatic suggest that I do the following:

env CPPFLAGS="-DOPENLDAP_FD_ SETSIZE=8192" ./configure

http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1126.html

Is there anyway I can set this without having to build openldap again?

ulimit -a shows the default values, ulimit -n <value> sets the number of open files.

-Dieter

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