Patch for Debian bug #180310 Generate some (low-severity) log information whenever setrlimit() fails, for debugging purposes. Authors: Sam Hartman Upstream status: submitted in <20070830171918.GB30563@dario.dodds.net> Index: Linux-PAM/modules/pam_limits/pam_limits.c =================================================================== --- Linux-PAM/modules/pam_limits/pam_limits.c.orig +++ Linux-PAM/modules/pam_limits/pam_limits.c @@ -622,6 +622,19 @@ if (pl->limits[i].limit.rlim_cur > pl->limits[i].limit.rlim_max) pl->limits[i].limit.rlim_cur = pl->limits[i].limit.rlim_max; retval = setrlimit(i, &pl->limits[i].limit); + if (retval != 0 && (i != RLIMIT_NOFILE + || pl->limits[i].limit.rlim_cur != RLIM_INFINITY)) + { + int save_errno = errno; + pam_syslog(pamh, LOG_DEBUG, + "setrlimit limit #%d to soft=%d, hard=%d failed:" + " %m; uid=%lu,euid=%lu", i, + pl->limits[i].limit.rlim_cur, + pl->limits[i].limit.rlim_max, + (unsigned long) getuid(), + (unsigned long) geteuid()); + errno = save_errno; + } if (retval == -1 && errno==EPERM) continue; status |= retval;