On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:48:39PM +0000, Craig Hurley wrote: > On 03/01/2008 20:13, Jeff D wrote: > > do you have anything specific listed in: > > > > /etc/security/limits.conf > > > > > > There's nothing in /etc/security/limits.conf. > Be specific. Is it an empty file or is it the default Etch file with everything commented-out? The /etc/scurity/limits.conf file should be owned root.root with permissions -rw-r--r-- Doug.