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add a note to the doc telling openbsd folks that their fd limit is
too low


svn:r2626

Roger Dingledine 19 years ago
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@@ -232,8 +232,10 @@ into a chroot jail</a>.)</p>
 <p>First, copy torrc.sample to torrc (by default it's in
 /usr/local/etc/tor/), and edit the middle part. Create the DataDirectory,
 and make sure it's owned by the uid/gid that will be running tor. Fix your system
-clock so it's not too far off. Make sure name resolution works. Open a
-hole in your firewall so outsiders can connect to your ORPort.</p>
+clock so it's not too far off. Make sure name resolution works. Make sure
+each process can get to 1024 file descriptors (this should be already
+done for everybody but the BSD folks). Open a hole in your firewall so
+outsiders can connect to your ORPort.</p>
 
 <p>Then run tor to generate keys: <tt>tor</tt>. One of the files generated
 in your DataDirectory is your 'fingerprint' file. Mail it to