Re: Setting ulimit values in files on Redhat AS 2.1

From: Scott Lurndal <scott_at_slp53.sl.home>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:14:52 GMT
Message-ID: <wwYEc.82423$dQ.57446@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com>

Andreas Korn <andreas.korn.NOSPAM_at_onlinehome.de> writes:
>linuxquestion_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need to set a few parameters at boot time.
>>

>>
>> Is it possible to set these ulimit values, in a file?
>> What is the file? What is the secret?
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>
>If you need these for a specific user, set them in the ~/.tcshrc or
>~/.bashrc or whatever your user config for your shell is. If you want it
>systemwide, place files like limits.sh and limits.csh with the calls in
>/etc/profile.d .

This will only work, of course, if you wish to lower the values, not if you with to increase them. To increase them, pam is the right answer.

scott

>
>Andreas
Received on Thu Jul 01 2004 - 13:14:52 CDT