limits.conf does not work at etch ?

[Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>]

Hello

I'm in trouble with the /etc/security/limits.conf file at ETCH AMD64
it does not apply the following statement after rebooting the machine

*		hard	nofile		65536

the nofile ulimit value stay sticked at 1024

Anyone knows a workaround ?

Thanks a lot