On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:46:04PM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> 	Hello.  Thanks for the pointer to login.conf(5) for user shells.  Now,
> what can I do about daemons that get started from /etc/rc.d?  My one-off
> solution in the past has been to modify the individual scripts for daemons
> where I need a larger default soft limit.  While this works fine, I'm
> finding that more and more programs need this change, and it seems that
> modifying individual rc scripts is probably not the most optimal solution.
> I know I can recompile the kernel with different defaults, but is there
> really no easier way to accomplish what I want, which is to set a higher
> default datasize soft limit for the entire system?

Unfortunably I can't see another way than recopiling the kernel (you can
use a binary editor to patch the uvm_init_limits() function in the kernel
image, but I'm not sure it's easier than rebuilding a kernel :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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