ulimit -- You don't need sources! (kind of long)

[David E. Brooks Jr]

In article <6218 at cbnews.ATT.COM>,
   grs at cbnews.ATT.COM (gregg.r.siegfried) writes:
> The problem I've always had with this
> is that all user processes (or the ones in your "database") have a higher
> ulimit, while all the non-login processes retain the 1K ulimit.

I saw a posting not that long ago where someone (I wish I could remember
who) did a similar process using init.  This way, all processes (which are
sub-processes of init, eventually) would have the higher ulimit.  It would
seem to me that combining the two methods would provide a reasonably powerful
method of controlling file sizes, since there is no reason that the pseudo-
login couldn't lower the ulimit.

> Gregg Siegfried
> Speaking for myself, of course..

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