ulimit change does not persist across system boot

[Opesh Alkara]

for which user you did that?
for root it doesn't shows most of the time....
switch to the user you want to change the limit and execute umilit -n and u
shud see the modified parameter.


On 6/16/06, Yard, John <jyard at ais.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> I modified /etc/security/limits.conf as suggested, booted,
> and ... no change in ulimits -n ....
>
> Suggestions ?
>
> JYard
> UCLA
>
> ( ps - internet searches suggest this is a
> persistant Red Hat issue )
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tobias Speckbacher
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:08 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: ulimit change does not persist across system boot
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Yard, John
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:56 PM
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > Subject: ulimit change does not persist across system boot
> >
> > In a RH Enterprise 3 system,
> > when I changed the value of user root ulimit :
> >
> > ulimit -n 4096
> >
> > this change did not persist across system boots.
> >
> > Besides putting it in root's profile,
> > who do I make this change permanent ?
>
> /etc/security/limits.conf
>
> user hard/soft nofile 4096
>
> or
>
> @group hard/soft nofile 4096
>
> -Tobias
>
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> > JYard
> > UCLA
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-- 
Best,
Opesh