[Zope] Curious FreeBSD problem: Too many open files in system

[John Hanna]

Has anybody seen this before? I seriously doubt my maxusers setting is
the problem -- this usually indicates an infinate openfile loop. Anyway,
the short of it is that Zope isn't starting. I'm using FreeBSD 3.4 and
Python 1.5.2.

Thanks!
John

bash-2.03# ./start
Mar 27 10:08:06 larryboy syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in
system: Too many open files in system
Mar 27 10:08:06 larryboy syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in
system: Too many open files in system
Mar 27 10:08:06 larryboy /kernel: file: table is full
Mar 27 10:08:06 larryboy /kernel: file: table is full
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2000-03-27T17:08:09 PROBLEM(100) ZServer Computing default hostname
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2000-03-27T17:08:09 INFO(0) ZServer Medusa (V1.13.4.1) started at Mon
Mar 27 10:08:09 2000
        Hostname: larryboy.cproject.com
        Port:8080

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2000-03-27T17:08:09 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Mon Mar 27
10:08:09 2000
        Authorizer:None
        Hostname: larryboy.cproject.com
        Port: 8021
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2000-03-27T17:08:09 INFO(0) ZServer PCGI Server started at Mon Mar 27
10:08:09 2000
        Unix socket: /usr/local/Zope-2.1.6-src/var/pcgi.soc
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2000-03-27T17:08:09 INFO(0) ZServer Monitor Server (V1.5) started on
port 8099
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/local/Zope-2.1.6-src/z2.py", line 586, in ?
    pf = open(PID_FILE, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/usr/local/Zope-2.1.6-src/var/Z2.pid'