On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 12:13:54 +0800 Tan Wee Yeh ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 11:17:22 +0800 Phil wrote: > > Anyone can lower and raise the soft limits, as long as they remain under > > the hard limit. Can you be more precise with your problem ? > > > I have tried to first raise the hard-limit as root then > the soft-limit as the user after root logouts without > success. > > Same message > ulimit: cannot raise limit: Operation not permitted > is persistent. > > Just found that I can raise the ulimit for the user if I > switch-user from root who has already raised the hard-limit. > > Is there anyway to raise the hard-limit permanently... > That seems to be the problem now. Perfectly normal :-) By doing the above you change the limits for root's shell, not the user shell. There is no way of raising the hard limits for a user except root. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]