ulimit: The specified value exceeds the user's allowable limit

[Glenn L. Stewart]

When I run at jobs as root on one particulat 10.20 server, I get this error:

"ulimit: The specified value exceeds the user's allowable limit"

Sent to root mail.
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Currently though, the ulimit output is:
# at now
ulimit > /tmp/out
^D
# cat /tmp/out
unlimited
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This is a per other servers without the error (mixture of 11.00 and 10.20 servers).

Any help would be much appreciated

Glenn Stewart
Unix Administrator
Caltex Australia

[Patrick Wallek]

From TKB document: A5237772

I am getting this error message:

sh[46]: ulimit: The specified value exceeds the user's allowable limit

How do I solve this problem?

Configuration Info

Operating System - HP-UX
Version - 10.20
Hardware System - HP9000
Series - D210

Solution

Solve the problem by replacing ulimit $l in
/var/adm/cron/.proto file with these lines:

if [ $l -eq 4194304 ]
then
ulimit unlimited
else
ulimit $l
fi

Please note that "$l" above is the dollar sign ($) followed by the lower case letter 'ell' (not the number one). See proto(4) for its special meaning in this context.

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Have a look in the document link, I hope that this helps

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=0a51113c0ac099132a/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000024645876

-Michael