[olug] Ulimit defaults

[Andrew Holm-Hansen]

I imagine this would be the wrong place to put this command, but I use
/etc/rc.d/rc.local to run stuff like that.

The file comments seem to suggest that this isn't the worst place to put
it, but there may be better. 

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

The linux startup sequence has been a mystery to me for some time now. 
I'm having my own issues with ~/.profile not behaving as expected.  In
fact, my prompt has been screwy for so long that I'm trained to 

source ~/.profile

every time I start a new shell.

don't know if that was what you were looking for, 

good luck,

Andrew

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:48, Nick Walter wrote:
> I'm trying to configure a RH 2.1 AS server for a database application. 
> Since this is going to be a very large database I'm running into
> problems with the ulimit default for number of open files allowed in a
> single session.  
> 
> As the database user, I can type ulimit -Hn and ulimit -Sn and find out
> I have a 1024 open file limit.  That is way too small for my needs.  I'm
> having a devil of a time figuring out a way to permanently raise that
> limit.  I can manually set higher limits as root user and then su to the
> database user and have higher limits, but that doesn't work long term as
> this database software needs to start automatically at boot without
> human intervention.  
> 
> I've tried mucking with /etc/security/limits.conf and that doesn't seem
> to have any effect at all.  Anyone know of a config file or perhaps init
> script modification I can make to set some very high hard and soft
> ulimit numbers for one specific user?
> 
> Nick Walter
> 
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