Re: Help needed with /etc/security/limits.conf

[Sam Watkins <swatkins@fastmail.fm>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:10:14PM +0100, Jacob Friis wrote:
> According to man limits.conf:
> 'To completely disable limits for a user, a single dash "-" will do.'
> 
> But when I set USERNAME - in /etc/security/limits.conf it doesn't have 
> any affect.
> 
> Any ideas?

The limits.conf manpage seems to describe an older version of
limits.conf, the syntax is cryptic and completely different from what's
described in the file's comments.


Try this in limits.conf:

  foo	hard	nofile	1000000
  foo	soft	nofile	1000000

and whatever else you need to change.