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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html b/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html index 3da178e..afd2b83 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html +++ b/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ syntax". What's happening?</a></li> <li><a href="#remove_dir">My backup set contains some files that I just realized I don't want/need backed up. How do I remove them from the backup volume to save space?</li> <li><a href="#redhat">How do I install the RPMs on Redhat linux system?</a></li> + +<li><a href="#solaris">Under Solaris, rdiff-backup keeps failing with the error message "open(/dev/zero): Too many open files".</a></li> + </ol> <h2>FAQ</h2> @@ -171,13 +174,50 @@ the above steps (this is what I did). Because of all the dependencies it is usually easier to use source RPMs for this. </li> +<P> +<a name="solaris"> +<li><strong>Under Solaris, rdiff-backup keeps failing with +the error message "open(/dev/zero): Too many open files".</strong> + +<P>Kevin Spicer reported this problem and then posted the following +update: + +<pre> +Subject: RE: Crash report....still not^H^H^H working +From: "Spicer, Kevin" <Kevin.Spicer@bmrb.co.uk> +Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 23:36:42 +0100 +To: rdiff-backup@keywest.Stanford.EDU + +Quick mail to follow up on this.. +My rdiff backup (on Solaris 2.6 if you remember) has now worked +reliably for nearly two weeks after I added... + + ulimit -n unlimited + +to the start of my cron job and created a wrapper script on the remote +machine which looked like this... + + #!/bin/sh + ulimit -n unlimited + rdiff-backup --server + exit + +And changed the remote schema on the command line of rdiff-backup to +call the wrapper script rather than rdiff-backup itself on the remote +machine. As for the /dev/zero thing I've done a bit of Googleing and +it seems that /dev/zero is used internally by libthread on Solaris +(which doesn't really explain why its opening more than 64 files - but +at least I think I've now got round it). + +</pre> +</li> </ol> <hr> <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~bescoto">Ben Escoto</a> <address><a href="mailto:bescoto@stanford.edu"><bescoto@stanford.edu></a></address> <!-- Created: Fri Sep 7 15:34:45 PDT 2001 --> <!-- hhmts start --> -Last modified: Mon Apr 29 23:59:11 PDT 2002 +Last modified: Sat May 11 19:26:17 PDT 2002 <!-- hhmts end --> </body> </html> |