thanks, i will try this out and report my findings :) cheers, raoul Adam Majer wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been plagued by the following syslog entries for some time, > > > setrlimit limit #11 to soft=-1, hard=-1 failed: Operation not permitted; > uid=0 euid=0 > setrlimit limit #12 to soft=-1, hard=-1 failed: Operation not permitted; > uid=0 euid=0 > > > > The cause of the problem is pam's limit module. The obvious solution is > to add the following (or some other limits that are less than the max), > > * soft sigpending 2179 > * hard sigpending 5375 > * soft msgqueue 719200 > * hard msgqueue 819200 > > But that will NOT work because root is not part of the *. * matching > only regular users. So, the solution is to set these limits explicitly > under root's name as well as * for non-root users, > > root soft sigpending 2179 > root hard sigpending 5375 > root soft msgqueue 719200 > root hard msgqueue 819200 > > Then it will go away. This is not a bug, if you think about it, as > otherwise it would be easy to lock yourself out if you make a wrong > setting :) > > I hope this helps someone figure out these issues with your setup. > > - Adam -- ____________________________________________________________________ DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia M.Sc. email. r.bhatia@ipax.at Technischer Leiter IPAX - Aloy Bhatia Hava OEG web. http://www.ipax.at Barawitzkagasse 10/2/2/11 email. office@ipax.at 1190 Wien tel. +43 1 3670030 FN 277995t HG Wien fax. +43 1 3670030 15 ____________________________________________________________________