Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-28 Thread Steve Hsieh
I don't think so. My 1GB problem was when using a hamm system. Commenting out ULIMIT in login.defs was the only way to raise the hard limit on all accounts from what I could see. On 27 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To anyone interested in this --

Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-27 Thread Steve Hsieh
To anyone interested in this -- The problem was not related to the kernel, but to ulimit. /etc/login.defs has ULIMIT set to 1GB for some reason. However, it is not clear to me why some accounts use this value, while other accounts ignore it. In any case, if you comment out the ULIMIT line,

Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-27 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
To anyone interested in this -- The problem was not related to the kernel, but to ulimit. /etc/login.defs has ULIMIT set to 1GB for some reason. However, it is not clear to me why some accounts use this value, while other accounts ignore it. Just guessing: do they use different

Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-27 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To anyone interested in this -- The problem was not related to the kernel, but to ulimit. /etc/login.defs has ULIMIT set to 1GB for some reason. However, it is not clear to me why some accounts use this value, while other accounts ignore it. In

Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
On my machine running hamm: $ ulimit unlimited I ran out of space at 1GB on the bo machine, but I don't have space to check this on the hamm machine. Did anyone here run into a 1GB limit on a hamm machine? My hamm machine has a 1GB limit, that I don't remember ever

Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-27 Thread Brian K Servis
Ben Pfaff writes: On my machine running hamm: $ ulimit unlimited I ran out of space at 1GB on the bo machine, but I don't have space to check this on the hamm machine. Did anyone here run into a 1GB limit on a hamm machine? My hamm machine has a 1GB limit, that I don't

Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-27 Thread Jens Ritter
Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ulimit = 1 GB Aha! Then this might be fixed in hamm: On my machine running bo: $ ulimit 1048576 On my machine running hamm: $ ulimit unlimited /etc/login.defs is part of the login package. On my bo system its: #ulimit unlimited I´m