> You can also set that through /proc, which is how a lot of people do it, Well, that's a good temporary way to do it, but then it loses changes on reboot. sysctl.conf is persistent. > Be careful doign this. The reason this isn't done by default is to make > it more difficult for trojaned copies of common utilities such as "ls" > to be left around in various places on the system where people might > accidentally run them. No doubt Google has plenty of information > regarding this. My example added it to the end of the path, so it only gets checked after all other directories.
--Ray
