Am 18. Jan, 2002 schwätzte Simper, Brian D so:
> I have a machine which is producing a 'ulimit' error. I have a user named
> patrol that is supposed to be able to run a job. Whenever I 'su - patrol' I
> get the error:
>
> ulimit: cannot raise limit: Operation not permitted
>
> The ulimit command seems pretty terse and I am not sure who or what might be
> trying to change the ulimit. Has anyone seen an error lime this before?
Check .bash_profile, .bashrc and /etc/profile. It's probably the latter. I
think a dist recently intro'd a bug with that. It doesn't break anything
unless you need the larger ulimit.
Try "ulimit -a".
ciao,
der.hans
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