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Date:      Sat, 02 Jan 1999 00:41:03 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adjusting Per-User Open files Limit 
Message-ID:  <19990101144104.16446.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
In-Reply-To: <5094.915059403@monkeys.com>  of Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:10:03 PST
References:  <5094.915059403@monkeys.com> 

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> I have tried using the `limit' command in C-shell as follows:
> 
> 	limit openfiles 1025
> 
> but all I get is:
> 
> 	limit: openfiles: Can't set limit
> 
> Why?  More to the point, what do I have to do, exactly, in order to raise
> this limit?

On any modern BSD-based system, the place to start is the man
page for login.conf(5).

-- 
Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>


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