On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 19:58, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > 2.4.x kernels: > > http://support.zeus.com/faq/zws/v4/entries/os/linuxfd.html That's interesting. I didn't know that a limiting factor could be in the PAM security stuff (though I suppose there may be another way to change it..) I'd always thought all that stuff was controlled through the /proc filesystem (and in 2.4, the only control that is in /proc is something to control how many files can be open on the entire system, rather than a per-user, per-process, or per-thread basis) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ My other computer is an / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ abacus. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030716/7e8c58a0/attachment.pgp