[ale] Conundrum for the day: file resource limit problem

[Wandered Inn]

> From: Joe Steele [mailto:joe at madewell.com]

> I believe that anyone can change their hard and soft limits, but only
> to the extent that the new limits don't exceed the existing hard limit.
> Only root can increase limits above the existing hard limit.  And since
> commands in /etc/profile are executed by the user's shell and not by
> root, ulimit is powerless for increasing existing hard limits.

Interesting.  I had not tested this on my box, but I'm pretty sure we
used to do this on old 3b2 boxes, but that was a while ago.  Thanks for
the update.


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