Error when execut su -

[Eliane Maria Lui]

HI,

When I execute this command: su -
I receive this message:
limit: descriptor: can not set limit

Eliane

[Dan Hetzel]

You most probably have a bad entry in
the file /.profile
To easily determine the offending line, edit your
/.profile adding the following as 1st line:

set -x

Next time you log in as root or do a 'su -'
you'll know which line causes the problem

[Harish Kumar Sudhamalal]

hi

apart from the above, please try

1) su with another user
2) check the /var/adm/sulog
3) try renaming the .profile and other startup scripts for root - to find out if any ot them are generating this error.

[Harish Kumar Sudhamalal]

hi

apart from the above, please try

1) su with another user
2) check the /var/adm/sulog
3) try renaming the .profile and other startup scripts for root - to find out if any ot them are generating this error.

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

a switch user ( su ) without the - will
switch your user id ( uid ) without sourcing
the ~/.profile
make sure that the su command is okay, although
there is morethan likely a shell script
problem with the users .profile

Try to login normally as the user rather than
su'ing

have fun,
Bill