Apache won't start: "Too many files error"?

[bpmee]

Hi All,



I suddenly have a strange Apache error. I'm on Fedora Core 5 test server using ISPConfig 2.3.1-dev.

Apache (httpd) went down about 2 hours ago. I tried the typical /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart command, and noticed that apache reported "failure" for both stopping and starting httpd.

I had a look at my error log: /var/log/httpd/error_log and noticed the following error:

piped_log_spawn: unable to setup child process '/root/ispconfig/cronolog --symlink=/var/log/httpd/ispconfig_access_log /var/log/httpd/ispconfig_access_log_%Y_%m_%d': Too many open files
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
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Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
Unable to open logs
piped_log_spawn: unable to setup child process '/root/ispconfig/cronolog --symlink=/var/log/httpd/ispconfig_access_log /var/log/httpd/ispconfig_access_log_%Y_%m_%d': Too many open files
Unable to open logs

I haven't changed httpd.conf!

Also, please note that ISPconfig's apache loads fine and ISPConfig is accessible from the web.

My server is under a heavy load at the moment, but I have never had issues with Apache in the past when putting the server under load...



Any ideas? Thanks.........