[CentOS] Processes launched from rc*.d and ulimit -n

Fri May 9 00:10:07 UTC 2014
Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>

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.

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rgds
Stephen