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From: jay@banzai.PCC.COM (Jay Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ULIMIT
Keywords: ulimit, file size, war, PO'd
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.191727.23909@banzai.PCC.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 90 19:17:27 GMT
References: <941@helens.Stanford.EDU> <1990Aug26.192516.2755@pilikia.pegasus.com>
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Organization: The People's Computer Company, Williston, VT
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In <1990Aug26.192516.2755@pilikia.pegasus.com> art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson) writes:
>In article <941@helens.Stanford.EDU> yergeau@EE-CF.Stanford.EDU (Daniel W. Yergeau) writes:
>>How do you increase the ULIMIT parameter?
>In ISC UNIX, you can just add the following line:
>ULIMIT=nnnnn
>to the file /etc/default/login.

Note that this does not change the ULIMIT for processes spawned by init,
such as cron.  (Yes, we were bitten by this).

The second solution give is a good solution (idtune'ing it up), or, in
our case, we changed rc2.d/S75cron to set the ulimit based on what was
in the /etc/default/login file.
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