[Pkg-shadow-devel] /etc/limits: "Invalid limit string:"

[Nicolas François]

Hello,

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 06:09:02PM -0200, fredlwm at gmail.com wrote:
> Slackware -current moved from 4.0.3 to 4.1.4.2 in the last days.
> Here, I noticed that login returned
> 
> login[551]: Invalid limit string: ' C20480 U300'
> 
> $ ulimit -u
> 300
> 
> $ ulimit -c
> 0
> 
> /etc/limits:
> 
> fredlwm C20480 U300
> 
> Is there anything wrong with the syntax ?

There were a but in the limits parsing. I recently applied a patch to fix
this. This should be fixed in the next release.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral