Help, ulimit -n system wide

Frank Jahn frank.jahn at robbe.com
Sat Feb 21 07:26:02 UTC 2004


Hello,

add this line to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to set the maximum open files.

This line allows 100000 open files for example:

echo "100000" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max

best regards

Frank

> Hi,  ,
>
> I want to set to all users to have max 16384 open file with ulimit -n but
> it's act only on root user ? When I login with another user name it's only
> 1024 ? I don't understand Why ? How can I set this value system wide ?!
> I used limits.conf for that users but still 1024 ....
>
>
> Thanks
> Vahric MUHTARYAN
>
>
>





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