A more elegant (and safer) way is through /etc/security/limits.conf Alkis
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Han Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 4:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug] Juan Quintela ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "steven" == Steven Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 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 fix this with limits, i.e. not letting any user to fill all > the RAM memory of your machine. If you are administering a machine > that can have hostile users and you are not using resources limits, > your systems is misconfigured. [snip: man bash /ulimit] Problem is people can select another shell. You also have to set it for the other shells. This is also a nice solution. http://rexgrep.tripod.com/rexfbdmain.htm And Juan, please stop the inserting of names whith the quoting. It makes your messages unreadable and unquotable. http://www.geocities.com/nnqweb/nquote.html#Q6 Cya, Han.
