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From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ulimit considered braindamaged ?
Message-ID: <791@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: Thu, 1-Jan-87 22:10:53 EST
Article-I.D.: maynard.791
Posted: Thu Jan  1 22:10:53 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Jan-87 02:35:35 EST
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Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Lines: 18
Keywords: ulimit SysV irksome
Summary: yep

Many thanks to all those people, too numerous to reply to individually,
who responded to my plaint about ulimit.  Everyone considered ulimit
to be a pain (are you listening, AT&T?).  It's an extremely poor
substitute for disk quotas.

Many people suggested workarounds that are embarrassingly (because I
should have thought of them) obvious.  These generally involve writing
a substitute for /etc/init or /bin/login, that set ulimit to a
reasonable number then exec the real init or login.  One of these
approaches should solve the immediate problem - uucp'ing a large file
to my SysV system.

Again, thanks to all those who responded.
-- 
Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Internet: campbell@maynard.uucp             120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
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ARPA: campbell%maynard.uucp@harvisr.harvard.edu      MCI: LCAMPBELL