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On 23/08/2012 12:14, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
> wrote:
>
>>> Last time I had a problem like this I spent a lot of time googling
>>> about ulimit/setting_limits/etc and found _nothing_ worth 
>>> mentioning.
>>> This time I run "ulimit -v unlimited", but the question is who put
>>> the former values there? Some hard-coded default? I couldn't find
>>> anything in init scripts nor in bash rc files. I know that on 
>>> logout
>>> the value is lost (I had to run ulimit again on chrooting). What is
>>> the appropriate file to put "ulimit -v unlimited" in? Perhaps
>>> ~/.bash_profile? And how can root set different hard limits for
>>> different users? Maybe some bash guru will step in?:)
>> probably rc.conf, or maybe login.defs depending on per user/or
>> everyone
>
> It seems rc.conf has a variable for ulimit -u, not for the other 
> flags.
> login.defs has ULIMIT but teh man page just says "Default ulimit 
> value"
> Ah well...

In /etc/security/limits.conf you can put any limits that can be set 
using ulimit command so they are kept between reboots.

> Thanks
>
> J.A.