On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 13:57:56 -0600 "Rigler, Steve" <SRigler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can you actually *increase* the limit with limits.conf? My > understanding is that you're still restricted to the hard limit. Hi Steve, The limits.conf file is used by an administrator to establish the initial values for both hard and soft limits. Once set, a non-root user may only decrease her hard limit. So if user "sally" has a hard limit of 300 processes and uses the "su" command to switch to user "jeff" who has a 500 process limit, she will still have a limit of 300. So to answer your question, hard limits are not increased with limits.conf. Its primary purpose is to set initial limit values when none have yet been set. Sean -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
