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On my debian-squeeze server I get thousands of messages in the logcheck email under

Security Events for sudo
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Aug 31 20:17:44 eclabs sudo: pam_limits(sudo:session): unknown limit item 'nofiles'
Aug 31 20:17:44 eclabs sudo: pam_limits(sudo:session): unknown limit item 'nofiles'

System Events
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Aug 31 18:45:01 eclabs CRON[31531]: pam_limits(cron:session): unknown limit item 'nofiles'
Aug 31 18:45:01 eclabs CRON[31531]: pam_limits(cron:session): unknown limit item 'nofiles'
Aug 31 18:45:01 eclabs CRON[31530]: pam_limits(cron:session): unknown limit item 'nofiles'
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How can I understand these messages and what should I do? How do I find out in which log these lines appear?

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  • can you also post limit.conf what you have configured Sep 2, 2013 at 10:44

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Check your /etc/security/limits.conf and look if you have an entry with attribute "nofiles" which should read "nofile" (without 's').

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