Per-user process limit: ulimit -u unlimited, how to set it for certain users

From: "Dan Browning" <danb(at)cyclonecomputers(dot)com>
To: <redhat-list(at)redhat(dot)com>, <interchnage-users(at)minivend(dot)com>, <minivend-users(at)minivend(dot)com>, <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Per-user process limit: ulimit -u unlimited, how to set it for certain users
Date: 2000-09-12 23:04:53
Message-ID: 000a01c01d0d$dcd04170$1500000a@danb
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I'm having no problem setting the max per-user process limit for root,
using...
ulimit -u unlimited

and I check that it works with
ulimit -a

But for other certain users that also need unlimited processes, such as the
interchange user, when I run
ulimit -u unlimited
It doesn't report any errors, but

ulimit -a
still reports that my per-user limit is 256.

So how do I increase the limit for certain users (besides root)? Such as
postgres, interchange, etc. Or what about increasing the limit for ALL
users on a system?

Thanks,

Dan Browning
Network & Database Administrator
Cyclone Computer Systems

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