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-bash: redirection error: cannot duplicate fd: Invalid argument
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Login error on console “-bash: redirection error: cannot duplicate fd: Invalid argument”
OS: CentOS 6
The error was due to /etc/security/limits.conf settings
The file had:
* hard nofile 10
* hard cpu 10
* hard locks 2
Once commented out and rebooted the error was solved.
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