Re: slapd[26189]: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.allow: Too many open files

[Andreas Moroder <andreas.moroder@sb-brixen.it>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount schrieb:
> --On June 11, 2008 10:40:27 AM +0200 Andreas Moroder 
> <andreas.moroder@sb-brixen.it> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > today a client to connect via ftp to our server ( SLES 9 ) and I got this
> > error:
> >
> > slapd[26189]: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.allow: Too many open files
>
>
> This is a long standing and well known problem with using tcpwrappers.  
> I assume you are using a 32-bit OS?  This can be resolved by moving to 
> 64-bits and upping the limits available, IIRC.
>
> --Quanah
Hello Quanah,

it is a 32 bit SLES 9 system.
slapd itself runs as a service and not via inetd.

The process started just before this error was the ftp server that gets 
called very often.
Would it be a good idea to start this as a service and would this 
modification solve the problem ?

Thanks
Andreas