Hi Corina: We have solved it developing two bash scripts: the first one set ulimit and calls the second one which includes the duplicity call. I think ulimit command must be included in a parent bash process.
Many thanks, Mario Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 2 10:32, Mario Barcala wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > Duplicity does not work inside cygwin default installation because it > > needs more or equal than 1024 into max open files. If we run ulimit > > -n, we get 256. If we run ulimit -n 1024, and then ulimit -n, we get > > 1024, and this way duplicity works fine from terminal. > > > > But we want to launch duplicity from crontab and we don't know how to > > change ulimit system wide to avoid duplicity failing from crontab. > > > > Any hint about how to solve this problem? > > The ulimit value is more or less faked. There's no systemwide limit at > all. What about a script which sets the limit to 1024 prior to calling > duplicity? > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
