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From: kerchen@iris.ucdavis.edu (Paul Kerchen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: filesize limit
Keywords: csh, filesize
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Date: 1 Jun 89 15:45:25 GMT
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Does anyone know how to change the default file size limit in csh?
I know that 'limit filesize xxxxx' will change the file size limit to
xxxxx, but there is a problem with this:
	In order to *increase* the file size limit, one must be root or a 
	member of the system group.  
This is fine if you are root, but what if you're not?  I want to make the
default file size limit larger than what it is, but I see no way of doing
this.  The problem isn't that I don't have root access (I do);  the problem
is that I see no way of increasing the file size limit for a non-root,
non-system group user (but there *must* be a way, right?).  I'm running
AIX 2.2.1, for what it's worth.

[Incidentally, this was the cause for the failed xftp/rcp problem which I
posted about recently.]

Paul Kerchen				| kerchen@iris.ucdavis.edu