[NTLUG:Discuss] Apache question...error message

[Douglas King]

I host a BUNCH of virtual domains using Red Hat 7.3 and Apache.  I have 
several different log files for each of the tld.  Last night....I tried to 
load the final .conf file 429kB in size....and got the following error message:

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[Wed Nov 6 01:57:37 2002] [warn] (24)Too many open files: unable to open a 
file descriptor above 15, you may need to increase the number of descriptors
[Wed Nov 6 01:57:37 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) 
mod_ssl/2.8.7 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.26 configured 
-- resuming normal operations
[Wed Nov 6 01:57:37 2002] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: 
/usr/sbin/suexec)
[Wed Nov 6 01:57:37 2002] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)
[Wed Nov 6 01:59:20 2002] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart
[Wed Nov 6 02:00:33 2002] [warn] (24)Too many open files: unable to open a 
file descriptor above 15, you may need to increase the number of descriptors
[Wed Nov 6 02:00:33 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) 
mod_ssl/2.8.7 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.26 configured 
-- resuming normal operations
[Wed Nov 6 02:00:33 2002] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: 
/usr/sbin/suexec)[Wed Nov 6 02:00:33 2002] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem 
(Default: sysvsem)

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The kernel was re-compiled today thinking that was the problem...but the 
error message keeps coming up.

Do anyone have a solution for it?

Remember...there a many virtual domains running on this web server.....

I am running:

Server version: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux)
Server built:   Jun 19 2002 11:55:23

on an I686 box.....