[LAU] changing for editing /etc/security/limits.conf in debian testing (ubuntu lucid)

Jeremy jeremy at autostatic.com
Fri Mar 5 07:57:17 EST 2010


On 03/05/2010 12:46 PM, rosea grammostola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As I heard from the Debian jackd maintainer:
> In Debian testing/ squeeze and very likely in Ubuntu lucid, it's not 
> neccesary anymore to manual edit /etc/security/limits.conf! It's been 
> automatically done by jackd in /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf and it 
> will conflict with /etc/security/limits.conf.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507248
> 
> Such things are good to know if you're member of the LAU community, and 
> I feel communication is lacking often with these kind of things...
> 
> 
> \r


This applies also for Ubuntu Lucid, I checked the source package of JACK
and it contains a debconf template to install the audio.conf file. What
I find weird is that this was introduced in Sid over half a year ago
according to the bug report? It's not in Karmic though.

Best,

Jeremy


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