<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>We are trying to run a script using the cron scheduler. For the script to run, we had to increase the number of open file descriptors using "ulimit -n" to 63000 from 1024. We increased the file descriptor value in /etc/security/limits.conf. But crontab scheduler does not read the new increased value for the file descriptors and always errors out throwing - "too many open files" error. We tried to increase the value in the script that is scheduled using the cron job, but it looks like cron does not pick the new value even if it is set in the script. Are you aware of any global setting for the cron scheduler which will force it to have more open file descriptors? Note that when the script is ran from the command line apart from the cron scheduler it works fine and does not throw out errors stating “too many open files”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> </body> </html>