I am needing to increase the soft limit for "file descriptors", and make it effective for a non-root user (lets say user1).
Ran these commands, while logged in as user1:
>ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 61440
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 61440
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited
> ulimit -Hc
unlimited
> ulimit -n unlimited
-bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
user1 is not on the sudoers list. is this command effective, only when run as a root user?
Also, does this change require a server reboot, to become effective?