'Sorry' for suggesting a look at the archives, I've just seen this
pop up very often in the past few weeks and checking the archives
is a lot quicker than waiting a few hours or days for an answer :)
In the archives is exactly where I found the answer when I got the same
error a few weeks ago.
I guess all I wanted to say was searching archives can save a few hours
possibly :)
There is 'no problem' really, Bastille changes the pam.d/limits.conf to include
the limit and then pam simply enforces these limits on the MB the user can
posses and when this limit is crossed, 'file size is exceeded' signal
is thrown.
So commenting out the line is one of the solutions to the problem, the other
is obviously increasing the limit.
Why su or xauth or X generates that file is a totally different problem, that
wasnt really addressed by the original question, however is there
any takers on answering that one?
Sadin...
At 00:49 08/09/2001, you wrote:
>Quoting Sadin Nurkic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > At 01:50 07/09/2001, you wrote:
> >
> > >I get a strange error when I tra to log in as a user by su
> > >after setting the password su fails with the message that "the maximal
> > >file size is exceeded" ("Die maximale Dateigr��e ist �berschritten")
> > >This error comes when working in XWindows not at the console.
> > >
> > >Whats the error?
> > >
> > >Ciao, J�rgen
> > >--
> > > CUT < <
> >
> > Hello,
> > In future try searching the mailing list archives at
> > www.linux-mandrake.com :)
> > it will save you a lot of time, but the problem is in
> > /etc/pam.d/limits.conf (off
> > the top of my head) and it happens just after you activate bastille
> > supposedly.
> > One of the lines says
> > * .... fsize .... 100000
> > where 100000 represents maximum size of the home directory, so jsut
> > comment
> > out that
> > line by putting a # infront of the *....
> >
> > Sadin....
>
>I don't blame Jurgen for asking that here. I searched the archives
>and all I found was some smart-ass comment about "you better run
>Bastille more carefully next time" which is of NO help.
>
>The problem is a file,
>/home/<user>/.xauth/refcount/root/<hostname>/unix:0
> (or somewhere near there)
>which shows up as 102.4 megabytes - sometimes accompanied by a BUS
>error from su.
>
>So, I'm guessing that bastille file limit just catches the problem...
>
>I still have this problem on my two MDK 8.0 workstations as well.
>
>Why su creates this size file is beyond me - but a BUS error is a
>good indication that something bad is happening.
>It is apparently NOT taking up that much space (by looking at
>the output of "df ." for example).
>
>Both Jurgen (I presume) and I would like to know how to fix the
>problem - not just comment out the limit so we don't see it anymore.
>
>Eric
>
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