I'm stuck really badly on this... even though my /etc/security/limits.conf has the necessary lines that should allow me to change my ulimit, I still can't do it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ulimit -n 4096 bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ulimit -Sn 1024 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ulimit -Hn 1024 What am I doing wrong or failing to check? -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
# /etc/security/limits.conf # #Each line describes a limit for a user in the form: # #<domain> <type> <item> <value> # #Where: #<domain> can be: # - an user name # - a group name, with @group syntax # - the wildcard *, for default entry # - the wildcard %, can be also used with %group syntax, # for maxlogin limit # #<type> can have the two values: # - "soft" for enforcing the soft limits # - "hard" for enforcing hard limits # #<item> can be one of the following: # - core - limits the core file size (KB) # - data - max data size (KB) # - fsize - maximum filesize (KB) # - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB) # - nofile - max number of open files # - rss - max resident set size (KB) # - stack - max stack size (KB) # - cpu - max CPU time (MIN) # - nproc - max number of processes # - as - address space limit # - maxlogins - max number of logins for this user # - priority - the priority to run user process with # - locks - max number of file locks the user can hold # - sigpending - max number of pending signals # - msgqueue - max memory used by POSIX message queues (bytes) # #<domain> <type> <item> <value> # #* soft core 0 #* hard rss 10000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] hard nproc 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] soft nproc 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] hard nproc 50 #ftp hard nproc 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - maxlogins 4 baloo soft nofiles 2048 baloo hard nofiles 65535 # End of file
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