I'll have to look into ulimit through PAM :-). Thanks for the info :-)!!
I wonder if Windows has anything like ulimit? They only recently "innovated"
filesystem quotas and symliks (did reparse points actually make it into
2000/XP?), so they may still be working on innovating other things like
ulimit...
On Sunday 04 November 2001 07:27 am, you wrote:
> On 2001.11.04 16:25 Steven Lawrance wrote:
> > I love Linux as much as anyone here, but to put things in perspective,
> > how about this:
> >
> > void main(void) {
> > while (1)
> > fork();
> > }
>
> You can use ulimit and pam to limit max amount of
> processes, memory usage, max filedescriptors, etc etc.
>
> A default installation of "any" distrubution and I think
> most operating systems are unsafe for DoS floods like
> this.
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