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Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:08:52 +0200
To: Axel Scheepers <ascheepe@surf.iae.nl>
From: "Timothy S. Bowers" <security@nol.co.za>
Subject: Re: maxfiles in kernel
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Hi Axel,

Mine was 1064 and I've changed it to 4096.  I've also changed kern.maxfilesperproc to 4096.
I hope this holds :)

What do you think I should put in the kernel for maxusers ?

Regards,

Timothy Bowers


At 01:54 PM 5/29/01, you wrote:
>Hi there,
>You can use sysctl -w kernel.maxfiles=<number> to set it manually or
>change the maxusers value in your kernel config.
>Greetz,
>Axel
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