Rahul Nabar wrote: > 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? Yes, absolutely. Of course a reboot isn't required if you're changing user limits. >> 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. I've never tried using unlimited. What you say makes sense. c -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
