ulimit change does not persist across system boot

Fri Jun 16 07:35:36 UTC 2006

Would it be to obvious to add a line to /etc/rc.sysinit like:
action $"Fixing Ulimit stuff: " ulimit -n 4096

(the action command will give the nice rc script  line with ok/fail)

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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-----
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tobias Speckbacher
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:08 PM
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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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