How to set ulimit (nofile) for a daemon

[Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>]

Hi,

HBase needs a high nofile limit. What would be the preferred way to set the 
limit for the HBase daemons?

Just call ulimit in the initscript?
The java process is started by "daemon" (Debian package "daemon").

Thank you,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro