On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 04:11:08PM +0200, Rob Hoopman wrote:
> A quick question:
> 
> I want to increase a ulimit variable for all user processes on my machine.
> It seems to me the obvious way of doing this is adding something like this to 
> /etc/sysctl.conf
> proc.1.rlimit.maxproc.soft=180 

This will change it for init, and all processes forked by init *after* the
change. existing processes keep their resources.

> 
> This works fine except for all processes started by rc on boot as rc is 
> called before /etc/sysctl.conf is read to set this value. 
> As xdm is called on boot by rc, logging into X leaves me with the old 
> ulimit value.
> 
> Am I missing something here?


hum, you need to change it for the process running /etc/rc/. The problem
is to find rc's PID (which happens to be the parent of /etc/rc.d/sysctl
I suspect).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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