Ubuntu 12.04 What?? what OS are you using? Eliezer On 09/15/2013 09:07 AM, Mohsen Dehghani wrote: > All workarounds failed except adding "ulimit -n 65000" to squid init > file > > Adding "session required pam_limits.so" to "/etc/pam.d/common-session" > also failed for me. > The box never read '/etc/security/limits.conf' at boot time > > OK so now there is another thing That I have tested: > /etc/pam.d/common-session > dosn't have the limit module as a default so the admin will set it as > he wants and to prevent a problem.. > > adding this line: > session required pam_limits.so > > to the common-session file forces the ulimits on a PAM session startup > and end.. > this forces the bash(which is a pam) session to use the limits that > are set by the admin in the limits.conf... > It's not such a good idea to allow a users such a thing but this is > the admin choice. > > Eliezer > >