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Subject: re: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files
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New message in tail:



Anyone else seen this type of message lately:?
>  tail -f .*log|wc
tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files


It doesn't seem to be a big issue, but thought I should mention it...



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