Jacob Bresciani wrote: > I've setup an LDAP server with a slave server on Centos 5.3 X86_64, > replication works, most of the time client logins work fine but I'm > starting to get a error I can't seem to eliminate, it's starting to > cause login failures for users and I think it's causing other > application failures when they try to auth against ldap. > > on the client side /var/log/messages shows [...] > > on the server side I see > Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ > hosts.allow: Too many open files > Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ You probably are running into the default limit for open files. Look at /etc/security/limits.conf and add a line reading * - nofile 64000 Then restart the ldap server via the init script. -- Benjamin Franz