My website traffic is getting heavier and the number of processes avaiable needs to be much higher than the 256-default. The user nobody needs more space and modifyng the /etc/security/limits.c...

My program works perfectly on my development machine and on the regular test machine. When ran on the two new test machines it exits immediately with exit code 99. This code exists at the beginn...

What is the impact on database activities from changing ulimits? How do you change it? from time(seconds)            unlimited file(blocks)            unlimited data(kbytes)               262144 stack(kbytes)    ...

How do I set "ulimit -n 5000" in perl so that it takes affect for child processes. I tried `ulimit -n 5000` (backtics) but a subsequent `ulimit -n` showed the value set back to the default.      

Earlier this week I was hacked.  One of the problems that was created was the error message above.  This occurs when ever you log into the system.  I have not been able to find much information on ...