On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:15, s wrote: > Hi all, I sure could use some help. As the subject states this is my > problem on my gateway machine. I have used reiserfs and interactive > bastille. I tried to reconfigure bastille and told it not limit number of > process and I put 'ulimit -f unlimited' in my /etc/profile file (per the > only english suggestion I could find on google). This occurs when I try to > su to root (pretty important task for me). I can still open other apps > and even log in as root and do stuff, but not su to root (is the only thing > I've identified as a problem as of yet). > > Anyone know how I can fix this, even at the risk of giving up a tad of > security? > > TIA, > -s Yep, had the same problem two weeks ago if you look in /etc/security/limits.conf you'll find a line at the bottom that says * hard fsize 100000 put a # in front of the line to disable it and your laughing
