Earl, Here are the last few lines of truss output. I don't know how to interpret are trace out the problem :-(
read(6, " f C J y j 7 / G n + W n".., 8192) = 8192 read(6, " g a P f Q t a s W I\n 1".., 8192) = 8192 read(6, " r E Z R L Y 4 1 Z K O k".., 8192) = 8192 read(6, " m R W t I k z x T q R m".., 8192) = 8192 read(6, " d y H 5 Y 7 v e 7 c W T".., 8192) = 8192 read(6, " L 4 d j 4 0 K J f x 5 P".., 8192) = 8192 read(6, " M 0 W i c g e G F w O k".., 8192) = 898 read(6, 0x00423914, 8192) = 0 open64("/usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe", O_RDONLY|O_NDELAY) = 255 open("/usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe/atch0UluOhWkOM", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 256 close(256) = 0 open("/usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe/atchOf5epVUnlB", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 256 close(256) = 0 open("/usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe/atchWqylEAN7nN", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 256 close(256) = 0 open("/usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe/atchhb5p6dWw1H", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 256 close(256) = 0 open("/usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe/atchtwr5yBv4ST", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 256 close(256) = 0 open("/usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe/atch77Bame6hG4", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 256 close(256) = 0 open("/usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe/atchuXZa17msUz", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 256 close(256) = 0 open("/usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe/atchBUgdSBWEOG", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 256 close(256) = 0 open("/usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe/atcho8NyVLn1aY", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 256 close(256) = 0 open("/usr2/emailweb/archives_html/pft_afe/atchjUGkg3N7aa", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 256 close(256) = 0 close(6) = 0 write(2, "\n E R R O R : U n a b".., 106) = 106 close(4) = 0 > -----Original Message----- > From: Earl Hood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 4:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Large archive conversion problem > > On March 5, 2004 at 11:46, "Rangesh Kona" wrote: > > > 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 > > Have tried to run truss to check all the open and close system > calls? > > --ewh