vmunix (WARNING!!! Do not open attachment, VIRUS

[Pedro Luis Estraño]

In the syslog.log appear the next message:

vmunix: file: table is full

What is that?

[Rita C Workman]

I tried but for some reason I was unable to open your attached file...

But generally vmunix: file table full indicates that your nfile parm is being exceeded. The best way to increase this kernel parm is to increase the maxusers and then the kernel formula will increase nfile and nproc accordingly. The system will then reboot and build a new kernel.

Hope this helps,
rcw

[Alex Glennie]

Don't look at this file !

Norton anti-virus will pop up warning you W97M.ethan.A.gen is associated with it !!!

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
Mcafee agrees with Norton - infected file.

Paula

[Rita C Workman]

Ouch.....talked to our NT guy (since I do this on a PC). His NT server is ok...but my PC just got hit !!

Thanks for the info though.....

/rcw

[Jiri D]

Hi,

For maintenance you can use sar -v,you can see
number open text,proc,files,inodes and overflows.

Jirid

[melvyn burnard]

I have added a warning to the Subject line due to this virus.

Again:

DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT.

It is infected.

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Pedro thanks for spreading virus!
Now to your question:
What you have to do is to increase the value of NFILE through SAM->Kernel configuration.
You can also check the current value with sar -v or sysdef.

[Shannon Petry]

I am really dumbfounded as to why the question author put a virused doc as an attachment???? It has nothing to do with the question and should be deleted!!!!!!!!

The author has their quesiton answered in the posts regarding increasing nfile in the kernel.

Regards,
Shannon

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi,

It is most likely that the author did not know that a virus was being attached. Running strings and od (from a Unix box) on the file shows what appears to be a screen capture of a terminal window after it ran a series of "more syslog.log" commands. The "good stuff" is at the end of the file.

I am more concerned that the forum maintainers have not removed the attachment. The warning is nice but the potential for problems is still present. Perhaps they should automatically delete any non-text attachment.

--Bruce