Dear gurus on this list, I use linux since kernel 0.93 and went through quite a lot of ups and downs but this is something I simply don't understand:
for running vmware I needed to increase the limit for open files.
ok, ulimit -n is restricted for non-root. I could do a su , ulimit -n
and su back to my user account. that way it works...
but I wanted to make it nice and clean, so I activated pam_limits for
gdm, set the limit in limits.conf, tested it in a tty - everything fine.
BUT I spent three evenings with google, manuals and quite a lot of other
sources but still diden't succeed:
when loging in through gdm the file descriptor limit for my user is 256,
no matter what I do.
I allready found out, that it must have something to do with the login
option for the shell. don't ask me why.
here is how I found out:
## in a gnome-terminal:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ >ulimit -n
256
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ >su -
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ulimit -n
1021
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# su mlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /root >ulimit -n
256
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /root >exit
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# su - mlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ulimit -n
1021
can someone shed some light on this?
thanks
mlo
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