Drew Parsons wrote: > I think you've now successfully arranged your system so that your > default user limit is 8192, correct? You've now > set /etc/security/limits.conf to provide that. So when you login, ulimit > -n already shows 8192, and your ant build is good to go, correct? Did > you make the change to /etc/security/limits.conf *after* you had > switched Xprint off? > > What I expect then is that you can reinstate Xprint, let it run with its > lower limit of 1024, but when you log in to your own account, you should > still be seeing the same 8192 limit that you see now without Xprt > running. Xprt's lower file limit should not be affecting any of your > other processes, which should run with the 8192 you've given them > in /etc/security/limits.conf. > > The causality I'm expecting is that your ant build now runs because you > changed /etc/security/limits.conf, *not* because you switched Xprt off. > Can you confirm this causality?
D'oh! You're (of course) perfectly correct! I've now reinstated xprint, and i still have my 8192 ulimit. I feel really stupid now. I'm honestly terribly sorry for wasting so much of your time on this matter. Many thanks for your patience. Christoffer Hammarström [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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