Set your limits in /etc/rc.

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, john heasley wrote:

# Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:12:24 -0800
# From: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
# To: Martin J. Laubach <mjl@emsi.priv.at>
# Cc: current-users@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: login_cap(2)
# 
# Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:54:46PM +0000, Martin J. Laubach:
# > | since login_cap seems half-baked (and useless for my purposes), i'd
# > | prefer to just disable it.  am i missing something?
# > 
# >   You could add it to cron and collect brownie points :)
# > 
# > 	mjl
# 
# as you'll have to modify every daemon/tool (eg: sshd w/o the UseLogin
# option) and there's still an issue wrt processes started at boot time,
# is this not best hidden within init and/or {v}fork?
# 
# i've also noticed that whatever governs the maxproc limit _appears_
# to consider the number of current processes on the system, not the
# number of processes owned by the user.  i have not watched closely
# enough be certain that is the case.  anyone else?
# 


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