[one-users] Issue with picking up proper ulimits during contextualization

[Tino Vazquez]

Hi Richard,

Reading .bashrc with 'su' (even with -l) can be sometimes a difficult
task. Any chance of setting it in /etc/profile?

Regards,

-Tino
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Richard Bettridge
<rbettridge at blackberry.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
>
>
> I’m having an issue where the ulimit for open files isn’t being set properly
> when I spin up a process for a user during contextualization.
>
>
>
> Upon start up of the non-persistent ubuntu 12 image, I am setting
> limits.conf to what I want and I’m explicitly adding ulimit –n 65536 to the
> user’s .bashrc. However at the end of my 90_tomcat script when I execute the
> tomcat process the ulimit is not being picked up and is set to 1024 instead
>
>
>
> As a test in my 90_tomcat script I’m running ulimit –a >> /tmp/tomcatsu.txt
>
>
>
> root at host002:/mnt# cat 90_tomcat |grep "su tomcatA"
>
> su tomcatA -l -c "ulimit -a >> /tmp/tomcatsu.txt"
>
>
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>
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> So this gets run at the end of 90_tomcat:
>
> su tomcatA -l -c "ulimit -a >> /tmp/tomcatsu.txt"
>
> su tomcatA -l -c "/var/jakarta-tomcatA/bin/startup.sh"
>
>
>
> When I cat the txt file it says 1024:
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> root at host002:/etc/pam.d# cat /tmp/tomcatsu.txt |grep open
>
> open files                      (-n) 1024
>
>
>
> But when I log in manually as root and run /mnt/90_tomcat by hand I end up
> getting the proper ulimit:
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>
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> root at host002:/etc/pam.d# cat /tmp/tomcatsu.txt |grep open
>
> open files                      (-n) 65536
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> Not sure what the issue but I’d appreciate any input.
>
>
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> Thanks,
>
>
>
>
>
> Richard Bettridge
>
> Systems Engineering Specialist
> BlackBerry
>
>
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