Comment 48 for bug 1727653

~$ ulimit -n 8192
bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted

~$ ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 31429
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 31429
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited

I did log out when initially adding to limits.conf. I've also rebooted a few times since this was added.

At the end of the limits.conf I have the following:

#@student hard nproc 20
#@faculty soft nproc 20
#@faculty hard nproc 50
#ftp hard nproc 0
#ftp - chroot /ftp
#@student - maxlogins 4
* soft nofile 10240
* hard nofile 10240
# End of file