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limit processes for users

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emmanuel Papirakis)
Fri Nov 20 12:21:26 1998

From: "Emmanuel Papirakis" <epapirakis@hotmail.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 09:15:28 PST
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Hey,

	I am currently trying to pretect my system against such processes:

void main(){

	while(1)
		fork();

}

	I know that I should use ulimit -u (a certain numer), but,
where do I put this so that it becomes in effect for all users 
(exept root of course) at all times????


			Papi

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