UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi everyone,

I'm working on an NCR box with MP-RAS 3.0, the box is configured as follows:

$ ulimit -a
time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) unlimited
stack(kbytes) unlimited
coredump(blocks) 65536
nofiles(descriptors) 1024
vmemory(kbytes) unlimited

Now, here comes the weirdness: I have users that connect through normal telnet or PUTTY, when they log in they get:

$ ulimit -a
time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) 65536
data(kbytes) unlimited
stack(kbytes) unlimited
coredump(blocks) 65536
nofiles(descriptors) 1024
vmemory(kbytes) unlimited


BUT if the SAME user connects through Reflection X (I tested it myself, and I didn't login as root and then su as the user, it was a direct login using the username and password):

$ ulimit -a
time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) unlimited
stack(kbytes) unlimited
coredump(blocks) 65536
nofiles(descriptors) 1024
vmemory(kbytes) unlimited


Why is it that reflection can catch the actual configuration of the machine? Where are telnet and PUTTY getting the file limit from? If I login as root I get the correct configuration no matter what method I use to connect (reflection, telnet, putty)

Any help will be greatly appreciated since I'm not a unix administrator per se, I'm a DBA with added responsibilities

Luis Torres

when the users were logging in they were taking the default values on /etc/default/login, I just changed the ulimit value inside that file to unlimited.

Thanks

Luis Torres