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From: mark@cogent.UUCP (Mark Steven Jeghers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ulimit considered braindamaged ?
Message-ID: <128@cogent.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 21:10:11 EST
Article-I.D.: cogent.128
Posted: Mon Jan  5 21:10:11 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Jan-87 00:46:11 EST
References: <790@maynard.BSW.COM> <166@herman.UUCP> <210@bigtex.uucp>
Reply-To: mark@cogent.UUCP (Mark Steven Jeghers)
Organization: Cogent Software Solutions, Stockton, CA
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Keywords: ulimit SysV irksome

In article <210@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
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>It isn't even necessary to have a source code license.  For the record, all
>that appears necessary is to up the ulimit in rc2 so that cron and processes
>cron runs hvae a higher ulimit, and to modify one of the public domain login
>programs to up the ulimit.

We moved the login object file to ``login2'' and made a new program 
called ``login'' which simply set ulimit to our wishes and exec'ed to
``login2''.  However, we didn't get cron and other daemons to use a higher
ulimit as you've mentioned above, and we probably should have.

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