Re: ulimit problem
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 12:13:54 +0800 Tan Wee Yeh (wire@ai101.iscs.nus.sg
) wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 11:17:22 +0800 Phil wrote:
> > Anyone can lower and raise the soft limits, as long as they remain under the hard limit. Can you be more precise with your problem ?
> >
> I have tried to first raise the hard-limit as root then
> the soft-limit as the user after root logouts without
> success.
>
> Same message
> ulimit: cannot raise limit: Operation not permitted
> is persistent.
>
> Just found that I can raise the ulimit for the user if I
> switch-user from root who has already raised the hard-limit.
>
> Is there anyway to raise the hard-limit permanently...
> That seems to be the problem now.
Perfectly normal :-)
By doing the above you change the limits for root's shell, not the
user shell. There is no way of raising the hard limits for a user
except root.
Phil.
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