[KLUG Members] Setting user Ulimit.

[Mark Kowitz]

Thanks for the useful info -- any idea how it got changed in the first
place?

mk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: members-admin@kalamazoolinux.org
> [mailto:members-admin@kalamazoolinux.org]On Behalf Of Adam Bultman
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 11:10 AM
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Setting user Ulimit.
>
>
> 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
>
> --
> Adam Bultman
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> [ http://www.glaven.org ]
>
>
> 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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