Carl Brewer wrote:

> I had a look, zope does the exec/change user thing internally, and
> I really don't want to go mucking in its bowels.  So I have
> set a ulimit in the zope process control script as follows (for the
> archive) :
> 
> /home/zope/server/bin/zopectl
> #! /bin/sh
> 
> # let zope use 356MB
> ulimit -d 393216

In the vein of "there's many ways to skin a cat", if you're
using a normal /etc/rc.d script to control zope, you could add
a "/etc/rc.conf.d/zope" that just contains

	# let zope use 356MB
	ulimit -d 393216

and that would changes limits for just things started by
/etc/rc.d/zope.

Cheers,
Simon.