Problems with ulimit
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Apr 14 21:38:41 UTC 2004
fedora at cjs226.com wrote:
> I'm trying to up the number of allowable open files for users. I've added
> the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf:
> - fs.file-max=65500
> and then added the following lines to /etc/security/limits.conf:
> - johndoe soft nofile 4096
> - johndoe hard nofile 32768
> Following a reboot, when johndoes logs in, he does a ulimit -H -n, but
> still sees 1024. Likewise, when he does a ulimit -n 4096, he gets
> "bash: ulimit: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted".
>
> What am I missing?
Ignore the previous posting...something fell on my mouse!
Only root can change the "-n" limit. Normal users are not permitted.
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