/etc/security/limits.conf Setting soft limits not holding after restart

ASGR71

Hi All,

I'm trying to set the security limits in

     /etc/security/limits.conf

as follows (as suggested by the database installer)

oracle     hard     nofile     65536

oracle     soft      stack     10240

but after restarting the system, the hard limit change

is registered but the soft limit is not. Is there a good

reason for this or not?

Thanks.

A.

SYSTEM:

OEL 7.6

DB 12.2.0.1.0

ASGR71

Ooops!

My noob mistake, added above.

Very late night.

:-(

I'm sure in OEL7.5 I just pasted the parameters

into the required files and installation of the DB

was without interruption.

The procedure I use is to alter the parameter

files manually before any DB installation takes

place. Then I try to run the fixme file in the /tmp

directory that still fails to alter the soft limit in

question.

ASGR71

Thanks Dude!

I'll give it a go.

JuanM

Can you please copy & paste here the content of you user .bash_profile?

How are you checking the "new" values? Using cat command? or using a ulimit command?

Please also check if you have a /etc/security/limits.d/*oracle*.conf file that could be override the limits.conf configuration.

ASGR71

Holy Fudge!

The above yum install ran but still hasn't fixed the soft stack limit!

It will not budge from 8192 no matter what I try.

Over the past two weeks I've tried looking at by-passing the PAM

modules and go straight for systemd/systemctl conf files in different

locations also without any luck. I've tried filtering the entire contents

of the /usr/lib/systed directory for any references of LimitSTACK

but luck there either.

ASGR71

Thanks Juan.

I've been using the ulimit command to view the current settings

and no other files are in the /etc/security or /etc/security/limit.d

directories, only the default file. The only thing that does work is setting the limit with

ulimit -s 10240

ASGR71

Also, the ~/.bash_profile has not been altered in any way

and only contains the default profile template.

ASGR71

If I reinstall OEL 7.5, is their a way to stop yum updating my

system to OEL 7.6? If we can't crack this, I'm tempted to

report this as a bug.