Path: utzoo!censor!comspec!sclcig!gsn From: gsn@sclcig.uucp (Georg Nikodym) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Ulimit revisited..... in ISC 1.0.6 Keywords: ULIMIT MAXFSIZ Message-ID: <1990Jul30.025636.28165@sclcig.uucp> Date: 30 Jul 90 02:56:36 GMT References: <742@sci34hub.UUCP> Sender: gsn@sclcig.UUCP Followup-To: comp.unix.i386 Distribution: na Organization: Southam Business Information & Communications Group Lines: 36 In article <742@sci34hub.UUCP> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes: >[stuff deleted...] >We have someone in another department trying to use large databases >under 1.0.6 (I'm not sure which db program they're using). They are >hitting the upper limit for normal users, which defaults to 8MB. Yup. >I need to increase this default, so they don't have to have an >inexperienced user su'd in as root doing database. This is an >obvious hazard :-). Yup. >I've searched all the /usr/include, /usr/include/sys, /etc/conf, >and everything else I can think of to try and find where to increase >this limit. On some (older?) versions of UNIX there is an /etc/master file which contains kernel config stuff, on others that info is contained somewhere in the /etc/conf tree. In my (limited? attempt at modesty :-) experience the parameter that you need to change is called MAXFSIZ, not ULIMIT. If your version of UNIX has the /etc/default directory structure then you'll also have to change the line "ULIMIT=some_value" line in /etc/default/login. >Can anyone point me to the place to change this? I'll be glad to >forward email to Connor for inclusion in the FAQ, to save others >from scratching their heads. Hope that info will set you straight (even if is somewhat general)... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Georg S. Nikodym - (416) 442-2238 | | | | Southam Business Information and Communications Group, Don Mills, Ontario | | gsn@sclcig.UUCP -or- ...!uunet!moore!sclcig!gsn | | | | "The floggings will continue until morale improves" -Jose Castel-Branco | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------