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Article #1824Re: filesize limit, another way
From: STEVE ROSEMAN
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1989 10:30
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1989 10:30
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In article <2641@portia.Stanford.EDU>, karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes:
> In article <4474@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> kerchen@iris.ucdavis.edu (Paul Kerchen) wrote:
>
>
>>Does anyone know how to change the default file size limit in csh?
> Under AIX 2.2.1, each user's filesize limit is controlled by a
> flag in /etc/passwd. It can be manipulated with the 'adduser'
> command. ksh recognizes this number; I haven't verified that
> csh has been properly modified. If not, complain to your system
> engineer.
>
> Chuck Karish {decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!karish
> (415) 493-7277 karish@forel.stanford.edu
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The easiest way I found (although finding it wasn't easy) is to place
the following 2 lines into /etc/environment. (The 250000 could be any
big number. That's just what I have.)
filesize=250000
export filesize
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Steve Roseman
Lehigh University Computing Center
LUSGR@VAX1.CC.Lehigh.EDU
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