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

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