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<DIV><SPAN class=228023314-24052005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>please
post your limits.conf</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Christoph <SPAN
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<P><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Serge
Bianda [mailto:serge.bianda@appiancorp.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 24,
2005 10:28 AM<BR><B>To:</B> rhn-users@redhat.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [rhn-users]
Ulimit and cron scheduler - too many open files error<BR><BR></P></FONT>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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
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