I've considered packaging separate files for configuring the limit for people, but the user in me always felt like that was something the sysadmin should have a say in. I rather dislike packages that make system changes without my knowledge or consent. Maybe that is just me?
I do agree that the documentation should be updated. We do take PRs ;) -Jared On May 15, 2013, at 10:54 PM, Toby Corkindale <toby.corkind...@strategicdata.com.au> wrote: > On 16/05/13 14:39, Toby Corkindale wrote: >> On 16/05/13 14:24, Jared Morrow wrote: >>> Well the riak-cs / riak / stanchion scripts all drop privileges using >>> sudo. On RHEL/Centos this sudo exec carries the settings from the >>> calling user (in the case of init.d, root) so things are fine there. On >>> Ubuntu/Debian that does not always work. So if you set the ulimit for >>> the root user, it might not propagate through to the riak-cs / riak / >>> stanchion users. >>> >>> So to change that, you should try to change it in >>> /etc/security/limits.conf. >> >> My understanding is that only sessions opened through PAM will be >> effected by the limits.d/* config files. ie. Not daemon processes. >> (I've checked this anyway with the following >> /etc/security/limits.d/riakcs.conf: >> riak-cs hard nofile 32002 >> riak-cs soft nofile 32001 >> ) >> >> As noted previously, this problem was not occurring on the current >> Ubuntu LTS nodes; just the Debian Squeeze ones. Which makes it >> particularly odd. >> >> Thanks for your help so far; I'll continue to investigate and report >> back if I find a solution. > > I realised that the Riak CS user was called "riakcs" and not "riak-cs". > Once I changed that in the limits.d/riakcs.conf file, riakcs started working > without the file warning. > > I also added in a line for the regular "riak" user while I was there. > > May I suggest you add this to the debian/ubuntu packages by default? > (ie. a file in /etc/security/limits.d/ ) > > > Cheers, > Toby > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
