cpc@AMES-NAS.ARPA (Chuck Collins) (11/04/85)
Could someone who understands the System V ulimit(2) stuff take a few minutes
and help me understand it? I recently started using a couple of System V.2
systems after lots of time on 4.2 and V7. I have been burned by a 1 Mb file
size limit more than once. My questions:
1) Is the 1 Mb limit a "normal" default, or is that a locally-imposed
limit?
2) If one wanted to change the system-wide default limit, where is
that done?
3) Once you have run into the limit, it seems it is time to get
access to the root account, or find a different way that requires
smaller files. Is there a way other than through root access to
make the file size limit higher? Or, can someone with root access
temporarily give a mortal user a higher limit?
4) Is there a way to change the default for an individual user (i.e.
1Mb be the default for most accounts, but some individual users
be allowed higher (or no) limits)? (preferably without changing
UN*X source)
5) Our version of csh seems to have no access to the file size limit.
Is there a command I don't know about under a different name?
Please respond by mail, and I will summarize.
Chuck Collins cpc@ames-nas {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!amelia!cpc