On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 12:06:15AM +0000, Mitch Patenaude wrote: > I figured out part of this: limits.conf is read by pam_limits.so, so > until you log in, it isn't effective. I don't have an elegant solution, > but my hackish solution so far is just to put a "ulimit -n 65536" into > the init script. Does anybody have a better (more elegant) solution? You can either do that or, maybe, use "su" or "runuser" to cause PAM to be called. -- rgds Stephen