Unable to get limits.conf to allow user to change ulimit -n in RHEL5

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

On a host certain limits were not persistent for an oracle user like

-stack - max stack size
-nproc - max number of processes
-sigpending - max number of pending signals
- nofile - max number of open files

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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