I see that it has been asked before and I have read everything that I could find, but nothing works.
I need to do a ulimit -Hn some high number (it is currently 4096) on my 14.2-x86_64.

So following what I read here, I made:
/etc/limits
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@users N4194304 U4194304
gamer N4194304 U4194304

and I made
/sbin/initscript
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# Set umask to safe level, and enable core dumps.
umask 022
ulimit -c 4194304
ulimit -Sn 4194304
ulimit -Hn 4194304
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
export PATH

# Execute the program.
* soft nofile 4194304
* hard nofile 4194304


eval exec "$4"


I rebooted and
~ # ulimit -Hn^M
4096

What am I leaving out? What did I forget? What did I do wrong?
Anyone? Please help!

That number was too high.
AND I needed to repeat 'ulimit -Hn xxxxxx' in my /etc/profile.

So I created:
/etc/limits (I symlinked it to /etc/limits.conf)
@users N1048576 U1048576

/sbin/initscripts (I symlinked that to /etc/)
# Set umask to safe level, and enable core dumps.
umask 022
ulimit -c 1048576
ulimit -Hn 1048576
ulimit -v unlimited
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
export PATH

# Execute the program.

eval exec "$4"
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And it is a fully functional example.

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