Subject: Re: login_cap(2)
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
List: current-users
Date: 01/23/2001 18:11:08
Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:01:34PM -0800, Greywolf:
> Set your limits in /etc/rc.

that is my temp soluton, but is just duct tape.

imho, it should not have been committed, since it doesnt work.

> 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?
> # 
> 
> 
> 				--*greywolf;
> --
> *BSD: the Berkeley redemption.