Number of files in a directory

Hello, is there a limit to the number of files that can be in a directory (not including disk space limitations)?   Quinton Williams Telecommunications Analyst University of Houston (832) 842-4680    

daemon and killproc problem in startup script

I am using RH9 and cannot get the daemon and killproc commands to work in my init.d startup scripts. I keep getting the following error:   # /sbin/service dhcpd stop Stopping dhcpd: /etc/init.d/dhcpd: line 26: killproc: command not found   # /sbin/service dhcpd start Starting dhcpd: