Re: How to set ulimit (nofile) for a daemon

[Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>]

On 19/05/10 11:46, Thomas Koch wrote:
> 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

Create an exclusive user for your daemon, and drop a file in 
/etc/security/limits.d with the following contents:

daemonuser  -  nofile <somenumber>

You should probably ask via debconf before doing it, though.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler