ulimit considered braindamaged ?

[Larry Campbell]

Many thanks to all those people, too numerous to reply to individually,
who responded to my plaint about ulimit.  Everyone considered ulimit
to be a pain (are you listening, AT&T?).  It's an extremely poor
substitute for disk quotas.

Many people suggested workarounds that are embarrassingly (because I
should have thought of them) obvious.  These generally involve writing
a substitute for /etc/init or /bin/login, that set ulimit to a
reasonable number then exec the real init or login.  One of these
approaches should solve the immediate problem - uucp'ing a large file
to my SysV system.

Again, thanks to all those who responded.
-- 
Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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