Bug 39759 – change nofiles in /etc/security/limits.conf doesn't get enacted PAM

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aaron Peterson 2004-01-29 06:34:25 UTC]

I added a line in /etc/security/limits.conf

to give a specific user a hard nofiles of 4096
and I logged out and back in and that user still had
ulimit -n report 1024

I rebooted as well and that didn't make it get enacted.
I tried with konsole and my regular console.

I'm using kernel 2.6.1-gentoo-dev-r1


Reproducible: Didn't try
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[Comment 1 Piotr Piasny 2004-01-29 11:09:27 UTC]

*       soft  nofile   999                                                                                                                   
*       hard  nofile   1999

on my system it works. (this values are fictious)

[Comment 2 Rahul Bhargava 2004-06-17 18:18:10 UTC]

I am facing the same issue.

Using kernel 2.6.5-r1. Works for root user
but for other users the settings for nofile
are being gardwirde to max of 1024.

[Comment 3 Tom Lynema 2004-09-01 18:13:28 UTC]

Make sure you are typing ulimit -Hn to ge the hard limit.  Otherwise the soft limit is shown.

Everything seems to be working ok.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-02-05 10:29:33 UTC]

Stale bug, not reproducible.