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From: "Costa Morris" <costa@cortx.com>
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Subject: setting soft FD limits
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:23:06 -0500
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i temporarily need to set my soft limits for file descriptors to 360 in
2.2.2.  i currently run the command when i su to root but as soon as i exit
the number drops back down.  i believe that it's changed from the shell that
ran the command. i need to have it at boot up and for now, be able to set it
without it changing upon exit.

can someone advise me on the best possible solution without building a new
kernel?

Thanks in advance!

-costa