Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ptsfa!cogent!mark 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 Lines: 22 Keywords: ulimit SysV irksome In article <210@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes: > >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. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mark Steven Jeghers ECHOMPGULP - process has eaten it | | cryptography, terrorist, DES, drugs, cipher, secret, decode, NSA, CIA, NRO | | | | {ihnp4,cbosgd,lll-lcc,lll-crg}|{dual,ptsfa}!cogent!mark | | | | Cogent Software Solutions can not be held responsible for anything said | | by the above person since they have no control over him in the first place | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+