Greetings, I have Dansguardian running on a 4.5-stable box and I was trying to increase the maxchildren value. When I increase the value beyond 127 dansguardian refuses to run with the error below. There is some google info available, but nothing seemed to help. Any guidance would be appreciated.
FROM DANSGUARDIAN.CONF # sets the maximum number of processes to spawn to handle the incoming # connections. Max value usually 250 depending on OS. # On large sites you might want to try 180. SYSCTL VALUES CHANGE FROM DEFAULT net.inet.carp.preempt=0 net.inet.tcp.recvspace=32768 net.inet.tcp.sendspace=32768 kern.shminfo.shmmni=256 kern.shminfo.shmseg=256 /VAR/LOG/MESSAGES - WITH MAXCHILDREN=128 Sep 25 12:31:35 fw2 dansguardian[22781]: Started sucessfully. Sep 25 12:31:35 fw2 dansguardian[22781]: Error polling child process sockets: Invalid argument Sep 25 12:31:35 fw2 last message repeated 29 times Sep 25 12:31:39 fw2 dansguardian[22781]: Exiting due to high failure count. Sep 25 12:31:39 fw2 dansguardian[22781]: Main parent process exiting. Sep 25 12:31:39 fw2 dansguardian[22781]: Exiting with error /VAR/LOG/MESSAGES - WITH MAXCHILDREN=127 Sep 25 12:32:08 fw2 dansguardian[4020]: Started sucessfully. -Steve S.
