Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: File size limit under AIX 2.1 ?
Message-ID: <3036@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 88 18:36:54 GMT
References: <17015@gatech.edu> <1087@unisec.usi.com>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
Lines: 14
Keywords: file,size,limit,error

In article <1087@unisec.usi.com> dpw@unisec.USI.COM (Darryl P. Wagoner) writes:
>In article <17015@gatech.edu> paj@gatech.edu (P. Allen Jensen) writes:
>>Is there a limit on the size of a file on AIX 2.1 ...
>
>Yes, it is set by ulimit shell builtin or the ulimit system call. ...  I
>would guess that this value is set in /etc/master which would mean that you
>would have to relink the kernel to change it ...

It's much easier than that.  Init reads the file /etc/environment primarily
for environment strings, but there's a special case for the names "umask" and
"filesize".  Just add a line like "filesize=10240" if you need large files.
(This is measured in units of 512-byte blocks.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint