[CentOS] No ulimit for user
nate
centos at linuxpowered.netTue Dec 8 16:38:14 UTC 2009
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Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to remove any limit on open files for a user; I've set > username nofiles to unlimited in /etc/security/logins.conf, but now I > get "could not open session" if I try to su to the user. > > singhh - nofile unlimited I think that is an invalid config, just set the limit to something really high # ulimit -n unlimited -bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted Looks like somewhere around the 1 million mark is the max, can't imagine why anyone would have a system that would have so many files open.. The max I allow any user is 10,000 which seems reasonable. nate
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