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From: det@nightowl.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Unix 5.4 and ulimit
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.151953.3189@nightowl.MN.ORG>
Date: 28 Apr 91 15:19:53 GMT
References: <1991Apr21.140740.6766@gold.sub.org> <1991Apr27.131456.16754@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
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In article <1991Apr21.140740.6766@gold.sub.org> root@gold.sub.org (Christian Seyb) writes:
>in /etc/default/login I have the following entry:
>ULIMIT=99999
>
>This should give every user (also uucico and news) a very high ulimit.
>The problem is, that this doesn't work. The default ulimit is still
>2MB for any user logging in. I also tried to change the default value
>of ulimit in /etc/conf/mtune - without any change to the behaviour of
>ulimit.

[Read the manual pages on mtune(4) and stune(4)]

The file "mtune" contains the default values and allowable ranges for some
system parameters, like ULIMIT.  Use idtune(1) to change the parameters (within
the range specified by "mtune") in the file "stune" and then rebuild the
kernel.  The new values will take affect *after* you have successfully rebuilt
the kernel and rebooted; not before.

You can also modify the user's ulimit in /etc/default/login
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det@nightowl.mn.org