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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The good folks at Asterisk wish to limit the number of open files used by Asterisk to 32K (see line 32). If you aren’t a super-user, chances are that Linux will cut you off at a number much less than that anyway. The reason you are getting the message; your user/sudo user can’t execute ulimit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ahmed Munir<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 29, 2012 2:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> asterisk-users@lists.digium.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-users] Getting Ulimit Message after restart asterisk service<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Danny,<br><br>I would like to know do I need to worry about this message? And why I'm getting this ulimit message? Please provide reason briefly <br><br><br>From: "Danny Nicholas" <<a href="mailto:danny@debsinc.com">danny@debsinc.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Getting Ulimit Message after restart<br> asterisk service<br>To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'"<br> <<a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a>><br>Message-ID: <00c101ccf6f2$9e8c11c0$dba43540$@<a href="http://debsinc.com" target="_blank">debsinc.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>This one is simple. Open /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk and put # in first<br>character of line 86 and 102. Or modfy /etc/sudoers to allow your sudo to<br>execute ulimit.<br><br><br><br>From: <a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] On Behalf Of Ahmed Munir<br>Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 8:52 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a><br>Subject: [asterisk-users] Getting Ulimit Message after restart asterisk<br>service<br><br><br><br>Hi all,<br><br>Currently I'm getting this message after restarting asterisk service;<br><br> Starting asterisk: /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk: line 86: ulimit: open files:<br>cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted<br><br>Before when I had root access I was not facing this message after that<br>system administrator assigned me sudo access for restarting asterisk<br>service.<br><br>Please assist me out to resolve this issue at earliest. I also tried to set<br>ulimit till 4-40 times higher than currently set i.e. 1024 but still giving<br>me same message.<br><br><br>--<br>Regards,<br><br>Ahmed Munir Chohan<br><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>-- <br>Regards,<br><br>Ahmed Munir Chohan<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>