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Old 04-06-2012
setting ulimit for a user

The root user runs the following

ulimit -a | grep open

and gets a result of

open files (-n) 8162

A user runs the same command and gets a result of

open files (-n) 2500

How can you set the ulimit of the user to 8162?

Regards, JIm
# 2  
Old 04-06-2012
Where is ulimit set for the user? /etc/profile ~/.profile?
Do you source some universal .profile - like code for every user?
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Old 04-12-2012
/etc/security/limits.conf
set the limits hard and soft .
_http://linux.die.net/man/5/limits.conf>
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