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Bug 1134421

Summary:	improve documentation of limits.conf
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Component:	pam	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Dalibor Pospíšil <dapospis>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.1	CC:	bhoefer, dapospis, jtrowbri
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	pam-1.1.8-11.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	no doc text needed	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1040664	Environment:
Last Closed:	2015-03-05 10:25:53 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Description Tomas Mraz 2014-08-27 13:38:45 UTC

open files when it should refer to open file descriptors

Actual results:
Comment in /etc/security/limits.conf:
#        - nofile - max number of open files

Expected results:
Comment in /etc/security/limits.conf:
#        - nofile - max number of open file descriptors

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2014-08-27 14:09:44 UTC

This needs to be update also in limits.conf manual page.

Also the maxsyslogins and maxlogins documentation in the limits.conf manual page needs to be clarified.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 10:25:53 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0453.html