[KLUG Members] Setting user Ulimit.

[Adam Bultman]

Ah HA!  FOUND IT.

All the web pages in the world couldn't help me now!

I found /etc/security/limits.conf .  File sizes were limited there, so I
changed it, and added about another 30 zeroes.

Adam

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Adam Bultman
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Adam Bultman wrote:

> This is the most annoying problem YET.
>
> I've got a redhat 7.2 box at work here, and I'm going nuts. I don't know
> how it happened, but the file size limit for all users (but root) is 102.4
> MB.  This is REALLY annoying, since I work with rather large files, and
> I'm really sick of getting 'file size limit exceeeded', and having a file
> exactly 102.4 MB.  I've read the manpage for ulimit, but I don't know how
> to set this for a user, not system-wide.  ulimit shows that file size is
> unlimited.  A web page told me to edit some files in /proc/sys/fs, but
> doing as they said changed nothing.
>
> I've come *this* close to scrapping this system and re-installing, but I'd
> rather have a quicker, and less painful way of fixing this problem.
> Re-installing is kind of lame, too.
>
> Adam
>
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