ulimit considered braindamaged ?

Mark Steven Jeghers mark at cogent.UUCP
Tue Jan 6 12:10:11 AEST 1987


In article <210 at bigtex.uucp> james at 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.

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