On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:47:39PM -0400, Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > According to the Quick Start Guide you need to setup ulimits. However, > apparently there must be somewhere were the user oracle has a certain > number of processes allocated that conflict with these limits. The > error when logging on as oracle is: > > -bash: ulimit: max user processes: cannot modify limit > > What would I need to modify? The QuickStart guide tells you to modify /etc/security/limits.conf to up these limits in addition to in your bash profile (or the equivalent for the shell you're running). I ran into trouble when using ssh due to privsep. Essentially, the /etc/security/limits.conf settings won't take effect if you're ssh'ing into the machine. I worked around this by adding: ulimit -u 16384 ulimit -n 16384 to /etc/init.d/sshd in the start() function. Rob -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l