> I need to to change the ulimit to 16384(ulimit -n 16384) on boot on > Centos 5.4 64 bit. How do I do that? Been searching and have yet to > find a good answer. Tried to do it in rc.local but it appears to > happen to late there In order to make the change permanent, add the following line to "/etc/security/limits.conf": * - nofile 16384 From "limits.conf"'s header: «Quote: - the wildcard *, for default entry - nofile - max number of open files