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manages /etc/security/limits.conf
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Version information

  • 3.1.9 (latest)
  • 3.1.8
  • 0.1.8
  • 0.1.7
  • 0.1.6
  • 0.1.5
  • 0.1.4
  • 0.1.3
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  • 0.1.0
released Jun 22nd 2016
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  • Puppet Enterprise >= 3.0.0
  • Puppet >= 3.0.0
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Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'eyp-limits', '3.1.9'
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puppet module install eyp-limits --version 3.1.9

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eyp/limits — version 3.1.9 Jun 22nd 2016

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Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Module Description
  3. Setup
  4. Usage
  5. Limitations

Overview

Control your /etc/security/limits.conf via puppet

Module Description

This module fully manages /etc/security/limits.conf so this will overwrite your existing file

Setup

What limits affects

  • /etc/security/limits.conf WILL BE overwritten

Setup Requirements

pluginsync must be enabled

Beginning with limits

Simple example

class { "limits": }

limits::limit { "nofile *":
  domain => "*",
  item => 'nofile',
  value => '123456',
}

limits::limit { "nproc *":
  domain => "*",
  item => 'nproc',
  value => '123456',
}

This will generate the following entries:

* - nofile 123456
* - nproc 123456

Usage

class limits

Without parameters, it just setups the limits.conf file with a header

define limits::limit

  • domain: user, %group or * (means all)
  • type: soft, hard or - (means both)
  • item: can be one of the following:
  • core - limits the core file size (KB)
  • data - max data size (KB)
  • fsize - maximum filesize (KB)
  • memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB)
  • nofile - max number of open files
  • rss - max resident set size (KB)
  • stack - max stack size (KB)
  • cpu - max CPU time (MIN)
  • nproc - max number of processes
  • as - address space limit (KB)
  • maxlogins - max number of logins for this user
  • maxsyslogins - max number of logins on the system
  • priority - the priority to run user process with
  • locks - max number of file locks the user can hold
  • sigpending - max number of pending signals
  • msgqueue - max memory used by POSIX message queues (bytes)
  • nice - max nice priority allowed to raise to values: [-20, 19]
  • rtprio - max realtime priority
  • chroot - change root to directory (Debian-specific)
  • value: value for item

Limitations

Tested on

  • Ubuntu 14.04
  • CentOS 5
  • CentOS 6
  • CentOS 7
  • SLES 11 SP3