Thanks for your replies I think I did not explain the problem clearly
I don't have any problem creating one single mailbox file. But after I start converting them into html from mhonarc I am getting errors like "Too many files open" or "Bad file number" After successfully generating " pft_afe2002qt3" I run following command /usr/bin/mhonarc -add /tmp/pft_afe2002qt3 -rcfile /usr2/emailweb/mhonarc/rc_main -title pft_afe -ttitle pft_afe -sort -reverse -treverse -outdir /usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe/ This is the error Message I am getting ERROR: Unable to create temp file "/usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe//atchbquvgxXYW7": Too many open files If I do limit descriptors 1024 ( increasing the open files count ) I am getting below error ERROR: Unable to create temp file "/usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe//atchbquvgxXYW7": Bad file number Thanks, Rangesh > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Schregenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Large archive conversion problem > > On Fre, 2004-03-05 at 16:32, Rangesh Kona wrote: > > 2. find /usr1/archives/ | xargs cat > /tmp/mbox > > > > mhonarc -add /tmp/mbox > > > > fails with Unable to create temp file Too many open files error > > Try using a loop, with bash it looks something like: > > for i in $(ls . | grep .txt) ; do > cat $i >> /tmp/mbox > done > > -- Daniel