This one time, at band camp, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen said: > > > > Stephen Gran wrote: > > >Hello all, > >I've been chasing a bug around, trying to figure out what's causing > >it. When I am in console mode ulimit -a shows: > >thought, and grep'ing for ulimit both through /etc/ and ~/ don't turn > >up anything. I am running a mix of sid and woody, on a 2.4.18 kernel > >(with CONFIG_QUOTA unset, no less). My X session is sawfish & gnome, > >and I use KDM as a login manager. I am at a loss, as I can't find any > >mention of ulimit, sigxfsz, rlimit, or anything else in the various > >places I've looked. > >Somebody, please smack me with the clue bat, as this is preenting me > >from getting some things done when in an X session, and is mildly > >annoying. > > > >Thanks in advance, > >Steve > > > > I had the problem when i logged in with ssh. Have a look at /etc/login.defs. > I thik it was there i fixed the problem. > Kenneth OK - thanks for the suggestion, it led me chasing around some files in /etc/, and I finally stumbled on /etc/security/limits.conf - commenting out the file size restriction fixed my problem, but now I'm curious - this restriction affected my X session and ssh logins, but not console logins. Are non-network connections not affected by the files in /etc/security/? Or is it that the default "trust the console user" overrides this? I am just curious if I should file this as a bug, or not bother the maintainer with a _feature_not_bug_ type of thing. Thanks again, all. Steve -- > Where in the US is Linus? He was in the "Promise Land". -- David S. Miller <davem@caip.rutgers.edu>
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