Process specific ulimit still low after changes to soft and hard ulimits

I'm having trouble with increasing the open-files ulimit (ulimit -n) for a particular process on a Debian 6 server. AFAIK I've done everything to change the servers hard and soft limits in this case, (ulimit -n shows 200000), but when I check the /proc//limits file it's still showing the old limits: Limit Soft Limit Hard Limit Units Max open files 1024 4096 files ---------- *The steps that I have already taken to permanently increase the ulimits are:* **Added to /etc/profile:** # set ulimit n permanetly ulimit -n 200000 **Added to /etc/security/limits.conf:** * soft nofile 200000 * hard nofile 200000 **Uncommented this lime in /etc/pam.d/su** session required pam_limits.so **What am I missing?** Thank you! ---------- Other (relevant?) info: - The process is started in a init.d script with start-stop-daemon - The /etc/security/limits.d/ directory is empty