--- support/apachectl.in.orig	Thu Sep 16 09:28:54 2004
+++ support/apachectl.in	Thu Sep 16 09:29:14 2004
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 ULIMIT_MAX_FILES="@APACHECTL_ULIMIT@"
 # --------------------                              --------------------
 # ||||||||||||||||||||   END CONFIGURATION SECTION  ||||||||||||||||||||
-
+eval `limits -e -C daemon` >/dev/null 2>&1
 # Set the maximum number of file descriptors allowed per child process.
 if [ "x$ULIMIT_MAX_FILES" != "x" ] ; then
     $ULIMIT_MAX_FILES