[Fedora-directory-users] init script failure and ulimit

[Mike Jackson]

Del wrote:
> 
>>> ulimit -n 8192
>>
>>
>>
>> On top of that, you also have to put the same ulimit line in any 
>> scripts which call ns-slapd (bak2db, db2bak, bak2ldif, ldif2bak, etc). 
>> This "feature" caused me major problems several weeks ago when those 
>> scripts failed and left some files with wrong permissions, thus 
>> causing nearly impossible to debug write deadlocks.
>>
>> I really hope that this is redesigned in an upcoming release.
> 
> 
> The ideal thing is if you extend the ulimit in /etc/security/limits.conf,
> put the ulimit command in /etc/profile.  Then you don't need to fix any
> scripts.

This is a linux thing, and maybe only a redhat linux thing (I don't 
know, because I only use RHEL and FC as far as linux goes). It doesn't 
exist on e.g. FreeBSD.

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mike