Hey All

I have a problem with a user other then root. I'm trying to set ulimit -n 20000 in my .bashrc or even my .bash_profile for that user but everytime i log off it tells me I don't have permission. How can I have this save on boot?...

-bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted

are you modifying the file as root? you probably won't have write access as a normal user to another user's home directory, so you'll need to use sudo or log in as root and modify the file from there.

Thank you for your reply,and yes i tried using sudo but haveing issues setting it up in the the suoders file.I a tried to add

notes ALL=(ALL) ALL

and then added ulimit -n 20000 in my .bash_profile but that didnt work, any help would be great.thanks

correction i added

sudo notes ALL=(ALL) ALL

so you have the word "sudo" in your sudoers file? and we're assuming your user is "notes".

should be all you need.

That might be my problem and yes notes is the user..Here is my suoders file.. I don think I have sudo in there..where do i put it?thanks for your help


# Host alias specification
# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# Defaults specification

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
notes ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

# Samples
# %users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
# %users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now

I figured it out, thanks for your help. It turned out that i needed to make some changes to my limits.conf file