> 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. Stephen, /etc/security/limits.conf is being read by the pam_limits PAM module. It is effecting the ssh and X sessions because the pam_limits.o file is listed in the relevant /etc/pam.d files. This same problem was driving me nuts until I finally figured it out the other day! Wayne -- Wayne A. Tucker - wtucker@donobi.com Network Engineer, Donobi Inc.
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