The following reply was made to PR general/1181; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Charles Howes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: general/1181: Too many virtual hosts cause cgi scripts to stop working Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 14:34:26 -0700 (PDT) It'd be great if we could print an error in all cases, but the truth is we can't. In fact sometimes we have no idea an error has occured because some library routine runs into the error and doesn't report it cleanly (or portably). I looked at printing errors a long time ago. (I thought this was explained somewhere ... maybe it's just in htdocs/manual/misc/descriptors.html which is probably worth reading too.) Under Linux if you're comfortable with recompiling your kernel you can raise your descriptors to 1024 without seriously causing problems. See <http://www.arctic.org/~dgaudet/patches/1024-descriptor.patch>. That's for 2.0.x kernels. 2.1.x kernels a similar patch can be used, and they can go far higher than 1024. You'll need to recompile apache after installing that kernel, and ensure you've got the right /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm symlinks before doing it. (You probably do ... it's hard to get anything done with them wrong :) Dean
