Re: [newbie] Problem with su

[John Rye]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 04:17:35 +0200
Amien Salie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm having a problem using the su command, this is the error i'm
getting:
> File size limit exceeded

This message is to do with user space quotas.

edit  /etc/security/limits.conf

there is a line near the end which defines maximum user space, either
comment it out or make the value very large

Cheers

John

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