Re: System Tuning

Karl Asha (karl@ncm.com)
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 14:27:17 -0500


lilo@lions.reseq.ungov writes:
> Yes, setrlimit calls which set the `hard' limit values should be able to do
> this. But the place to do it is in your login.c, and probably in `su'....
> Alan Cox suggests there's an alternate login.c floating around Sunsite that
> does this. It seems to me that BSD has a format for various /etc/passwd
> fields that enforce these limits for the various resources, though I don't
> know if that alternate login.c uses said format. Seems to me this would be
> a very good project for an ISP, if there's nothing readily available....
>
>
> lilo

I think he's referring to lshell, which is one sunsite somewhere in the
Shells directory.

Karl