On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:15, Eric Ekong wrote: > Why is this, what does Bastille do that causes this error? > > Eric One of the questions in Bastille asks if you want to set limits (can't remember the exact one). it then writes a few parameters in /etc/security/limits.conf to set limits for file size, core sizes and open files size. (usually at the bottom of the file) Bastilles actually doing exactly what you tell it to...SU'ing to root by doing su means your taking on root without flushing your limits settings, so you exceed your limits. you can try "su -" (Never tried it but wondered if it work in that situation) or just go into limits.conf and get rid of the size limits Andrew
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