On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 11:48, Dave Oxley wrote: > Hi, > > During the build of our application on a FC2 server running as a > non-root user we get this error message: > java.io.FileNotFoundException: > /var/staffplanner/build/staffplanner/trunk/releaseGeneric/html/modern/pt/EmployeePayRateScrollPageNavigation.html > (Too many open files) > use sysctl to alter the fs.file-max parameter Its a kernel, rather than a userspace, parameter. This parameter is held in /proc/cyc/fs/file-max so you could just as easily echo a value to that. But using sysctl.conf will set this at boot time (rc.sysinit)