On Monday 26 March 2001 12:24, you wrote: > On 26 Mar 2001 18:16:22 -0500, Civileme wrote: > > On Monday 26 March 2001 11:03, you wrote: > > > On 26 Mar 2001 11:21:59 -0500, Greg Sarsons wrote: > > > > On Monday 26 March 2001 10:35, you wrote: > > > > > On 26 Mar 2001 10:47:08 -0500, Greg Sarsons wrote: > > > > > > was having problems not being able to ls, su as a regular user. > > > > > > > > > > > > Then I upgraded to XFree86-4.0.3-2, XFree86-100dpi, > > > > > > XFree86-server-4.0.3-2mdk and notice that the kde Konsole is now > > > > > > usable ie readable text. But you still can't su to root as the > > > > > > error file size exceeded still occurs. However, I was getting > > > > > > this error with rxvt and now I'm not. > > > > > > > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > If you do > > > > > rm -rf ~/.xauth > > > > > can you su than > > > > > > > > If I do that then I can issue su once. As soon as I log out and try > > > > to su again I get file size exceeded. > > > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > I know. But i don't know where the problem is so i can't give you a > > > real solution to the problem. > > > > Try commenting out the last line in /etc/security/limits.conf > > > > Civileme > > the end of etc/security/limits.conf > > #limit user processes per user to 150 > * soft nproc 100 > * hard nproc 150 > > # limit size of any one of users' files to 400mb > * hard fsize 400000 > > # prevent core dumps > * hard core 0 > > I assume you meant the line before that. > Still, i like to set a limit to how big a user-file can be. Yeh the fsize--it appears to be broken--a few su's and you are again at file size limit. I just commented it out. This is a later version than I was using, but I did set mine up from 40 Mb to 400Mb and STILL got the problem though after a few su commands. Civileme
