Re: ulimit not working for changing daemon limits

2012-04-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:56:04 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:04:19 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >> >>> I am trying to increase the number of open files the sendmail daemon >>> may have. I have read that inserting a ulimi

Re: ulimit not working for changing daemon limits

2012-04-11 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:04:19 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > >> I am trying to increase the number of open files the sendmail daemon may >> have. I have read that inserting a ulimit command in the init script is >> the way to do this. > > (...) >

Re: ulimit not working for changing daemon limits

2012-04-11 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:04:19 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > I am trying to increase the number of open files the sendmail daemon may > have. I have read that inserting a ulimit command in the init script is > the way to do this. (...) I can be wrong but I had understood ulimits (per user/daemo

Re: ulimit, bash and ash

2004-01-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:08:59 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:40:30 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > >> I just noticed that in bash "ulimit -u" is the same as ash's >> "ulimit -p", while bash has another meaning for "ulimit -p" ... This >> makes writing scripts quite difficult

Re: ulimit, bash and ash

2004-01-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:40:30 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I just noticed that in bash "ulimit -u" is the same as ash's > "ulimit -p", while bash has another meaning for "ulimit -p" ... This > makes writing scripts quite difficult, I'd say you cannot then use > ulimit in /bin/sh scripts, only

Re: ulimit, bash and ash

2004-01-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:40:30PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I just noticed that in bash "ulimit -u" is the same as ash's > "ulimit -p", while bash has another meaning for "ulimit -p" ... This > makes writing scripts quite difficult, I'd say you cannot then use > ulimit in /bin/sh scripts,

Re: Ulimit

2002-01-24 Thread Noah Massey
--begin quoted message from Ramiro Brito Willmersdorf, > > Hi, > > I'm running kde on debian woody. > Where can I change my resource limits? > I'm having problems with some programs that I think might be > caused by having ulimit set to: > > 3|[EMAIL PROTECTED]:rbw $ulimit -s > 8196 > 4|[EMAIL

Re: Ulimit

2002-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:08:33PM -0200, Ramiro Brito Willmersdorf wrote: > 1) Editing /etc/security/limits.conf, addind the line: > > rbw softstack unlimited Had you tried also increasing the hard limit to unlimited? -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terro

Re: ulimit -n problem

2001-11-15 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Don, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:31:00 +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, lilo, > I'd like to test an overloaded apache with 2000 httpd processes running > as nobody on it. However, I can't ulimit the maximum number of open > file descriptors for "nobody" as well as common users. Is there any way >

Re: ulimit and staroffice

2000-12-05 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, not sure exactly, but I've seen soffice suckdown 215M virtual with 96M resident, while working with big files... It's a real pig, but still better than Windows atleast -Jon

Re: ulimit

1999-09-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
To wit, consider that this function, just as 'cd', must be implemented as a shell builtin. If it was a program then the value's set wouldn't be able to affect future programs which are run. "David Z. Maze" wrote: > Stavros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stavros> ianyone knows why i can't find u

Re: ulimit

1999-09-03 Thread David Z. Maze
Stavros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stavros> ianyone knows why i can't find ulimit in debian potato? Because it's a builtin in various Bourne-style shells (bash, zsh, pdksh), and therefore doesn't have its own package? -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dm

Re: ulimit problem

1996-11-26 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
> Normally, limits are not set (ie they're set as the maximum available). If > the limits are lower than normal: > 1) either you have lshell installed, and there's a configuration file in etc > which tells you which are the limits, yep.. got it.. Thanks a lot. That's my first encounter with lshe

Re: ulimit problem

1996-11-26 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:36:14 +0800 Tan Wee Yeh ([EMAIL PROTECTED] g) wrote: > At least I understand how the prior case has only local > effect and that the user is limited by the hard limts. > > Now... is there anyway to raise the hard limit globally. Normally, limits are not set (ie they're se

Re: ulimit problem

1996-11-24 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 12:13:54 +0800 Tan Wee Yeh ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 11:17:22 +0800 Phil wrote: > > Anyone can lower and raise the soft limits, as long as they remain under > > the hard limit. Can you be more precise with your problem ? > > > I have tried to first

Re: ulimit problem

1996-11-23 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 11:17:22 +0800 Tan Wee Yeh ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:04:22 +0800 Tan Wee Yeh ([EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ) wrote: > > > Anyone knows how I can raise the limits? > > > It doesn't seem to be the problem with Hard/Soft > > > limits but more like priviledge

Re: ulimit problem

1996-11-23 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:04:22 +0800 Tan Wee Yeh ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to raise the ulimit as an ordinary user. > I don't seem to be able to raise any limit above some > ceiling, except when I'm root. > > Anyone knows how I can raise the limits? > It doesn't seem to be t