modify /etc/security/limits.conf without reboot?

[Florian Diesch]

Am Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:16:59 -0500
schrieb Zachary Stern <zs at enternewmedia.com>:

> Is there a way to modify /etc/security/limits.conf without a reboot?
> 
> E.g. if I add the following:
> 
> +root hard nofile 20000
> +root soft nofile 20000
> +www-data hard nofile 20000
> +www-data soft nofile 20000
> 
> Can I just restart apache, which runs as www-data? I'd like to find a
> way to avoid rebooting.

I don't expect it to work at all for Apache.

limits.conf is a config file for the PAM module pam_limits so it's only
used for users authenticated via PAM. But Apache doesn't use PAM to
authenticate as www-data

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