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

[Steve Losen]

In article <562 at aurora.AthabascaU.CA> lyndon at nexus.ca writes:
%
%One problem with this is that cron jobs don't go through login. Yes I can
%add an explicit ulimit command to the command lines in cron, just as I
%can add wrappers around login. The fact that I have to do this on such
%a global scale argues that perhaps this limit shouldn't be there in the
%first place ...

Ok -- so the obvious solution is to write a new /etc/init that
sets the ulimit and then execs the real init, "/etc/init.real".
Then every process on the system inherits the big ulimit.
(I haven't had the guts to try this, however)
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Steve Losen     scl at virginia.edu
University of Virginia Academic Computing Center