Updated the regex for soft and hard memlock

- get only the last entry in the event of duplicates.
- recognize 'infinity' and '-1' in addition to 'unlimited' as per
  limits.conf man page

limits-test.conf

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+
+oracle               soft    nproc   2047
+oracle               hard    nproc   16384
+oracle               soft    nofile  1024
+oracle               hard    nofile  65536
+
+oracle soft memlock 2048
+oracle soft memlock 1024
+#oracle soft memlock -1
+#oracle soft memlock infinity
+#oracle soft memlock unlimited
+oracle soft memlock bogus
+
+oracle hard memlock 2048
+oracle hard memlock 1024
+#oracle hard memlock -1
+#oracle hard memlock infinity
+oracle hard memlock unlimited
+oracle hard memlock bogus
+
+
+

mem_verify.sh

@@ -218,17 +218,20 @@ SHMALL=$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmall)
 # if 'unlimited' then set to value of total memory
 LIMITS_FILE='/etc/security/limits.conf'
 
-SOFT_MEMLOCK=$( grep -E '^oracle.*soft.*memlock.*unlimited|^oracle.*soft.*memlock.*[0-9]++' $LIMITS_FILE | awk '{ print $4 }')
+# from the limits.conf man page
+#  All items support the values -1, unlimited or infinity indicating no limit, except for priority and nice.
+
+SOFT_MEMLOCK=$( grep -E '^oracle.*soft.*memlock.*(unlimited|infinity|-1)|^oracle.*soft.*memlock.*[0-9]++' $LIMITS_FILE | tail -1 | awk '{ print $4 }')
 if [[ -z $SOFT_MEMLOCK ]]; then
-	SOFT_MEMLOCK=$( grep -E '^\*.*soft.*memlock.*unlimited|^\*.*soft.*memlock.*[0-9]+' $LIMITS_FILE | awk '{ print $4 }')
+	SOFT_MEMLOCK=$( grep -E '^\*.*soft.*memlock.*(unlimited|infinity|-1)|^\*.*soft.*memlock.*[0-9]+' $LIMITS_FILE | tail -1 | awk '{ print $4 }')
 fi
-[[ $SOFT_MEMLOCK == 'unlimited' ]] && SOFT_MEMLOCK=$TOTALMEM
+[[ $(echo $SOFT_MEMLOCK | grep -E 'unlimited|infinity|-1') ]] && SOFT_MEMLOCK=$TOTALMEM
 
-HARD_MEMLOCK=$( grep -E '^oracle.*hard.*memlock.*unlimited|^oracle.*hard.*memlock.*[0-9]+' $LIMITS_FILE  | awk '{ print $4 }')
+HARD_MEMLOCK=$( grep -E '^oracle.*hard.*memlock.*(unlimited|infinity|-1)|^oracle.*hard.*memlock.*[0-9]+' $LIMITS_FILE  | tail -1 | awk '{ print $4 }')
 if [[ -z $HARD_MEMLOCK ]]; then
-	HARD_MEMLOCK=$( grep -E '^\*.*hard.*memlock.*unlimited|^\*.*hard.*memlock.*[0-9]+' $LIMITS_FILE  | awk '{ print $4 }')
+	HARD_MEMLOCK=$( grep -E '^\*.*hard.*memlock.*(unlimited|infinity|-1)|^\*.*hard.*memlock.*[0-9]+' $LIMITS_FILE  | tail -1 | awk '{ print $4 }')
 fi
-[[ $HARD_MEMLOCK == 'unlimited' ]] && HARD_MEMLOCK=$TOTALMEM
+[[ $(echo $HARD_MEMLOCK | grep -E '(unlimited|infinity|-1)|infinity|-1') ]] && HARD_MEMLOCK=$TOTALMEM
 
 [[ -z $SOFT_MEMLOCK ]] && SOFT_MEMLOCK=0
 [[ -z $HARD_MEMLOCK ]] && HARD_MEMLOCK=0

regex-test.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#!/usr/bin/bash
+
+# test regex for pulling memlock from /etc/security/limits.conf
+
+# duplicate entries may appear in the file
+# the following are duplicates for 'oracle soft memlock'
+# the second one of 1078768 will be the one used by the system
+#
+# oracle soft memlock 5078768
+# oracle soft memlock 1078768
+
+# Test Variables
+TOTALMEM=33554432
+(( TOTALMEM_BYTES = TOTALMEM * 1024 ))
+LIMITS_FILE=limits-test.conf
+#######################################
+
+# from the limits.conf man page
+#  All items support the values -1, unlimited or infinity indicating no limit, except for priority and nice.
+
+SOFT_MEMLOCK=$( grep -E '^oracle.*soft.*memlock.*(unlimited|infinity|-1)|^oracle.*soft.*memlock.*[0-9]++' $LIMITS_FILE | tail -1 | awk '{ print $4 }')
+if [[ -z $SOFT_MEMLOCK ]]; then
+	SOFT_MEMLOCK=$( grep -E '^\*.*soft.*memlock.*(unlimited|infinity|-1)|^\*.*soft.*memlock.*[0-9]+' $LIMITS_FILE | tail -1 | awk '{ print $4 }')
+fi
+[[ $(echo $SOFT_MEMLOCK | grep -E 'unlimited|infinity|-1') ]] && SOFT_MEMLOCK=$TOTALMEM
+
+HARD_MEMLOCK=$( grep -E '^oracle.*hard.*memlock.*(unlimited|infinity|-1)|^oracle.*hard.*memlock.*[0-9]+' $LIMITS_FILE  | tail -1 | awk '{ print $4 }')
+if [[ -z $HARD_MEMLOCK ]]; then
+	HARD_MEMLOCK=$( grep -E '^\*.*hard.*memlock.*(unlimited|infinity|-1)|^\*.*hard.*memlock.*[0-9]+' $LIMITS_FILE  | tail -1 | awk '{ print $4 }')
+fi
+[[ $(echo $HARD_MEMLOCK | grep -E '(unlimited|infinity|-1)|infinity|-1') ]] && HARD_MEMLOCK=$TOTALMEM
+
+[[ -z $SOFT_MEMLOCK ]] && SOFT_MEMLOCK=0
+[[ -z $HARD_MEMLOCK ]] && HARD_MEMLOCK=0
+
+(( SOFT_MEMLOCK_BYTES = SOFT_MEMLOCK * 1024 ))
+(( HARD_MEMLOCK_BYTES = HARD_MEMLOCK * 1024 ))
+
+
+cat <<MEMINFO
+
+OS:
+        totalmem: $TOTALMEM
+        in bytes: $TOTALMEM_BYTES
+
+    soft_memlock: $SOFT_MEMLOCK
+        in bytes: $SOFT_MEMLOCK_BYTES
+    hard_memlock: $HARD_MEMLOCK
+        in bytes: $HARD_MEMLOCK_BYTES
+
+MEMINFO
+
+