On 10/1/2000 Jim B wrote:
If you're running potato then you'd probably want to use PAM and
/etc/security/limits.conf instead.
Look at the files themselves to see how they are set up.
I have figured out how to set these limits up well enough, but I have
a related question, how can i set reasonable limits? what I mean is
how can i set reasonable limits for a user that they will never even
notice are there unless 1) they are intentionally trying to crash the
machine or 2) unintentionally have a process go out of control. sort
of analogous to the 5% limit on ext2fs reserved for root.
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Ethan Benson
To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/