up2date crashing

[Thomas Cameron <thomas cameron camerontech com>]

All -

I just did a fresh install of RHEL 3 ES off the original CDs with no
updates applied.  I ran up2date -u and after downloading the headers and
then running the tests, I get a screen full of garbage like this:

rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr
rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr
rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr
rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr
rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr
rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr
rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr
rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr rsh-0.17-17.6.i386.hdr There was some sort of I/O
error: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/var/log/up2date'

Any ideas?

Thomas