ulimit (was: getty/login for callback)

[Terry Hull]

In article <827 at twwells.uucp> bill at twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>
>This is what I heard, also. But it fails to explain why increasing
>ones ulimit is restricted to root. If ulimit is only a safety belt,
>there isn't any good reason for preventing one from tightening or
>loosening it as needed.  

I installed a program called newlimit that allows normal users to
increase the ulimit on a particluar process.  That process can be
their shell if they choose, but I certainly do not recommend doing
that.  The only time we have a problem with a 1 MB ulimit is when we
are dealing with archives.  



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