socketpair: No buffer space available

[Marc G. Fournier]

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- --On Monday, March 26, 2007 00:08:07 +0100 "Bruce M. Simpson"
<bms at FreeBSD.org> 
wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> Mar 20 07:59:26 mars sshd[717]: error: reexec socketpair: No buffer space
>> available
>>
>>
>> If I have a login session on the machine, I can easily do a reboot of the
>> machine, and it seems to come up clean every time (ie. no fsck's need to be
>> run) ...
>> Does anyone have any ideas of what I can look at?
>>
> How odd. The re-exec feature is not documented in the man page. It appears
> that it can be turned off with the -r switch according to sshd.c. Can you
> give that a try and see if that offers symptomatic relief? It would be
> somewhat less secure as sshd will fork rather than fork..exec.

That was actually just one example ... I get more of:

sendmail[82066]: l2NEA1Ht082066: SYSERR(root): makeconnection: cannot create 
socket: No buffer space available

then I do the sshd errors ... in another 15 hours or so, they will all start up 
again, like clock work :(


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