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Article #1356Re: File size limit under AIX 2.1 ?
From: Karl Heuer
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 18:36
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 18:36
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In article <1087@unisec.usi.com> dpw@unisec.USI.COM (Darryl P. Wagoner) writes: >In article <17015@gatech.edu> paj@gatech.edu (P. Allen Jensen) writes: >>Is there a limit on the size of a file on AIX 2.1 ... > >Yes, it is set by ulimit shell builtin or the ulimit system call. ... I >would guess that this value is set in /etc/master which would mean that you >would have to relink the kernel to change it ... It's much easier than that. Init reads the file /etc/environment primarily for environment strings, but there's a special case for the names "umask" and "filesize". Just add a line like "filesize=10240" if you need large files. (This is measured in units of 512-byte blocks.) Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: File size limit under AIX 2.1 ? Message-ID: <3036@haddock.ISC.COM> Date: 17 Mar 88 18:36:54 GMT References: <17015@gatech.edu> <1087@unisec.usi.com> Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston Lines: 14 Keywords: file,size,limit,error