At 8:12 AM -0800 2000/2/29, Tom wrote:
> Beware of per-user limits. You don't mention what user you ran "limit"
> as, or what user the news server process runs as. Each could have very
> different limits. See /etc/login.conf. It might even depend on how the
> server server process is started. Processes started at boot run under the
> "daemon" class, for instance.
In theory, this is true. However, my /etc/login.conf does not
appear to be configured this way:
$ grep -v '^#' /etc/login.conf
default:\
:copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
:welcome=/etc/motd:\
:setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K:\
:path=~/bin /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin:\
:nologin=/var/run/nologin:\
:cputime=unlimited:\
:datasize=unlimited:\
:stacksize=unlimited:\
:memorylocked=unlimited:\
:memoryuse=unlimited:\
:filesize=unlimited:\
:coredumpsize=unlimited:\
:openfiles=unlimited:\
:maxproc=unlimited:\
:priority=0:\
:ignoretime@:\
:umask=022:
standard:\
:tc=default:
xuser:\
:tc=default:
staff:\
:tc=default:
daemon:\
:tc=default:
news:\
:tc=default:
dialer:\
:tc=default:
root:\
:ignorenologin:\
:tc=default:
russian:Russian Users Accounts:\
:charset=KOI8-R:\
:lang=ru_RU.KOI8-R:\
:tc=default:
> BTW, the system wide file limit is not static. You don't need to
> re-compile to change it, or even reboot. Just use sysctl.
I guess I'm going to have to read up on that....
Thanks!
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