Hi all, please see this excerpt from the man page for /etc/limits: LIMITS(5) LIMITS(5)
NAME limits - Resource limits definition DESCRIPTION The limits file (/etc/limits by default or LIMITS_FILE defined config.h) describes the resource limits you wish to impose. It should be owned by root and readable by root account only. However, the current permissions on this file are NOT in accordance with the recommendation in the manual pages: ls -l /etc/limits: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 725 Jul 17 1998 /etc/limits I have not modified this file or its permissions, and Linux was not on this machine on July 1998. :) Isn't this a distribution bug? (FWIW, the same condition exists on my friend's potato machine.)