Crontab Question

pete212 · Post by **pete212** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:47 pm

Well since my rh9 cannot seem to keep the ulimit as 4096 and the only way i can change the ulimit is if i 'ulimit -n 4096' as root, i was wondering if i could add a line to my ircdchk or ircd.cron so everytime the crontab trys to start the server it ulimit -n 4096 before it starts the server so i dont get this error in the log.txt

Couldn't find the ircd running. Reloading it...

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v3.2.1
using TRE 0.6.8

* Loading IRCd configuration ..
* Configuration loaded without any problems ..
* Loading tunefile..
* Dynamic configuration initialized .. booting IRCd.
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The OS enforces a limit on max open files
Hard Limit: 1024 MAXCONNECTIONS: 4096
Fix MAXCONNECTIONS

If so, how? because i dont know anythin on crontab script making.

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:42 am

crontab doesnt do starting servers

I think you might want to check out /etc/init.d, not sure, been a long while since i've been on *nix.

Ron2K · Post by **Ron2K** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:20 am

Slightly off-topic, but did you follow the instructions in the FAQ (Other - I want my IRCd to hold over 1024 connections) to change the MAXCONNECTIONS value? Because, if you get all of that sorted out, you probably won't have to do ulimit -n 4096 every time.

pete212 · Post by **pete212** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 2:55 pm

yes i did do it and i still have to ulimit -n 4096