Subject: Re: ulimit error on login
From: Stephen Lewis (lewis@napanet.net)
Date: Tue Sep 14 1999 - 17:49:02 MDT
The 'ulimit' is a shell built-in and it is implemented
in YDL. It works just fine on my system.
HOWEVER - it only accepts '0' or 'unlimited'
as arguments to the '-c' option. i.e. you can
have EITHER unlimited core files OR no core
files - there is no support for truncating core files,
Stephen Lewis
chuck's list account wrote:
>
> >What does this "ulimit" thing do? ...and does removing it from
> >/etc/profile have any consequences beyond eliminating the error?
>
> Well I have been clued to a certain extent...
>
> At 4:03 PM -0700 9/14/99, Stephen Lewis wrote:
> >4/ If you want to know about some topic try the following in order:
> >'help topic'
>
> I've been doing unix since 91, but never thought of typing "help
> (anything)" before. =)
>
> The help page for ulimit indicated that the line in question in the
> /etc/profile was designed to limit the size of that user's core files.
>
> That's not a bad thing to set a limit on I guess, so now the question
> that begs is: Why that ulimit operation is not permitted on my system?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -chuck
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