[clug] Open File Limit (ulimit)

[Chanop Silpa-Anan]

Justin,

If your system use pam make sure that the process `login' for example
does read pam_limits.so; look for /etc/pam.d/login on debian.


Chanop

On a good day of Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:38:36PM +1000, Doychi wrote

> Hi All,
> 
> I seem to have a problem changing the number of open files a user can have.  I
> want to set it above the 1024 for an application I am running.  When I modify
> the file /etc/security/limits.conf so that the user "verity" has the lines
> something like this:
> 
> verity        soft     nofile     10000
> verity        hard     nofile     20000
> 
> But when I login again and try to use ulimit as the user I get the error:
> 
> bash: ulimit: cannot modify open files limit: Operation not permitted
> 
> or
> 
> bash: ulimit: cannot modify open files limit: Invalid argument
> 
> Does any one have any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
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