Re: Setting ulimit values in files on Redhat AS 2.1

From: P.T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:31:01 +0200

Pascal Legrand <Pascal.Legrand@univ-orleans.fr> wrote:
> >> I need to set a few parameters at boot time.
> >>
> >> They need to be:
> >> stack size (kbytes) (ulimit -s): 32768
> >> open files (ulimit -n): 4096
> >> max user processes (ulimit -u): 16384
> >
> > $which ulimit
> > ulimit: shell built-in command
> >
> > try your shell's configuration file.
> > Assuming you use bash, try /etc/profile
> >
> cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max

Nothing to do with the question - those are system-wide limits, not his
personal limits. Please use ulimit.

Peter