In article <[🔎] 20100519225812.GB28995@dario.dodds.net> you wrote: > These daemons load pam_limits *when running on behalf of other users*. > That's an entirely different scenario than running a daemon per se. In the case of a java process started with an init script, it would be su doing the pam chain typically. For the daemon package I think it is not using pam sanely. Too bad it does not support setting ulimits directly. Gruss Bernd