[svlug] file descriptors

[Bill Jonas]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Arthur Thomas wrote:

>$  ulimit -HSn 4096
>ulimit: cannot raise limit: Operation not permitted
>
>thanks for trying to help me :)
>
>any other ideas?

Are you root while attempting this?  I'll admit to not having tried to
increase the number of file descriptors before, but it seems to me that
it's the kind of thing that only root should be able to do.

Bill
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