[afnog] how to change the maxsymlinks parameter on solaris

[Phil Regnauld]

Stephane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer) writes:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:27:47AM +0300,
>  Peter Nyamukusa <petern at africaonline.co.tz> wrote 
>  a message of 33 lines which said:
> 
> > The problem I am now faced with is that it looks like I am exceeding
> > the default MAXSYMLINKS see below:
> 
> No, the problem looks like you created a loop by accident. I do not
> not the default value of MAXSYMLINKS but it is probably difficult to
> exceed it!
> 
> > Unable_to_switch_to_/usr/home/popusers/p/petern:_symbolic_link_loop.

	32 is the default value, and is overridable with a kernel recompile,
	but this is for loop detection.  There's another variable that controls
	the number of links per directory which is I think around 32768.

	But Stéphane is correct, it's a loop here.