On 18/05/10 16:21, Rahul Nabar wrote: > I am trying to get my "ulimit -l" set to unlimited, for normal users, > and not sure what's going wrong. I get the correct ulimit under only > once particular scenario: If I become root and then su to a normal > user. Otherwise it doesn't seem to work. The symptoms are:
Check /etc/pam.d/su and /etc/pam.d/ssh; you may need add the following line to get ulimits to be set at login: session required pam_limits.so Cheers, Guy -- Dr. Guy Coates, Informatics System Group The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 834244 x 6925 Fax: +44 (0)1223 496802 -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
