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by **Partha Sr** » Sun, 28 Feb 1999 04:00:00

Hi all:

I know that this has been addressed before, but I was not able to find
the resolution in the list. I am having problems setting up quota on my
RH5.2, kernel 2.2.1 system. I get the following error msg:

bash: ulimit: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted

Any help is appreciated.

thanks
Partha

by sh » Sun, 28 Feb 1999 04:00:00

>bash: ulimit: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted

Hi! I don't understand this problem myself, but I got a fast net
connection, so I flew over to dejanews and search for "bash ulimit". I
found some old postings regarding this. The replies are as follows:
(Hope they are of help!)

> However, the problem is documented in the bash2 COMPAT file:
> ...
>8. `ulimit' now sets both hard and soft limits and reports the soft
limit
> by default (when neither -H nor -S is specified). This is
compatible
> with versions of sh and ksh that implement `ulimit'. The
bash-1.14
> behavior of, for example,
> ulimit -c 0
> can be obtained with
> ulimit -S -c 0
> It may be useful to define an alias:
> alias ulimit="ulimit -S"
>...
>The fix is in one of the bash startup files.
>73 de Jeff
>--
>Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ

>Chapel Hill, NC

And here is another one

- Show quoted text -

Quote:>ulimit is a shell builtin and this one means "you" tried to increase
>a limit you're not allowed to if not root. Silly question, but did
>you take a look into your .bash_profile, then /etc/profile ?

>Cheers,
>Juergen

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