Bug 145423 – limits(5) man page does not exist, /etc/limits mentions it

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Michael Ploujnikov 2006-08-28 16:19:14 UTC]

The summary says it all.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2006-08-28 20:12:17 UTC]

/etc/limits comes from shadow which also provides limits(5)

[Comment 2 Michael Ploujnikov 2006-11-12 15:03:33 UTC]

I have sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2 installed (what Gentoo system doesn't come with shadow?), but no limits(5) manpage.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2006-11-12 21:28:32 UTC]

it's in shadow-4.0.18.1 for sure, checking older versions isnt really of value

[Comment 4 Michael Ploujnikov 2006-11-13 03:22:28 UTC]

I only 'checked' shadow-4.0.15-r2 because that's what's stable on my system (AMD64). Also, shadow-4.0.18.1 isn't stable on most systems.

[Comment 5 Michael Ploujnikov 2007-02-08 20:21:45 UTC]

I have shadow-4.0.18.1 installed now and there is still no man for limits:

$ eix -A sys-apps/shadow
[I] sys-apps/shadow 
     Available versions:  4.0.15-r2 ~4.0.16-r2 ~4.0.17 ~4.0.17-r1 4.0.18.1
     Installed:           4.0.18.1(22:30:12 11/25/06)(cracklib nls -nousuid pam -selinux -skey)
     Homepage:            http://shadow.pld.org.pl/
     Description:         Utilities to deal with user accounts

$ man limits
No manual entry for limits
$ man 5 limits
No entry for limits in section 5 of the manual

[Comment 6 Michael Ploujnikov 2007-02-08 20:34:23 UTC]

Apparently, when shadow is built with pam it doesn't install/use /etc/limits:

$ equery belongs /etc/limits
[ Searching for file(s) /etc/limits in *... ]