On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Carl T. Miller <carl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, ulimit only lets you set a number up to the hard > limit that is set for your shell. Both hard and soft > limits are set to 1024 by default unless the limits.conf > file has been configured _before_ the shell is started. I rebooted with the changed limits.conf. Doesn't that count as "before" the shell is started? > I know this works with numbers, since I set hard and > soft limits to 10240 for select users. Try using a > number less than the total for the system instead of > unlimited. You are right! It does seem to work with arbitrarily large numbers lower than the kernel limit. But not unlimited. Strange! Is that a bug? I thought "unlimited" was supposed to be a convenient synonym for the kernel imposed limit. -- Rahul -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
