From: Nix
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:03:50 +1100 To: suse-security@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-security] weird postfix error At 10:34 AM 28/12/2000 +0100, you wrote:
What does ulimit -a say? Sounds like the OS is limiting tthe size and postfix checks bevore attempting to write to the file. If you check the postfix source, you will see that this comes from the process limits.
fw:~ # cat /etc/profile --snip-- #Additions by harden_suse: ulimit -H -c 20000 # hardlimit: no coredumps > 20mb ulimit -S -c 0 # softlimit: no coredumps ulimit -f 512000 # hard/soft: no files > 512 mb in size allowed ulimit -S -n 250 # softlimit: no more than 250 filedescriptors ulimit -S -u 100 # softlimit: no more than 100 processes ulimit -H -v 100000 # hardlimit: no more than 100mb memory ulimit -S -v 50000 # softlimit: no more than 50mb memory (netscape needs ...)
fw:/etc # ulimit -a core file size (blocks) 0 data seg size (kbytes) unlimited file size (blocks) 512000 max locked memory (kbytes) unlimited max memory size (kbytes) unlimited open files 250 pipe size (512 bytes) 8 stack size (kbytes) 8192 cpu time (seconds) unlimited max user processes 100 virtual memory (kbytes) 50000
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