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Re: ulimit progress...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen Francom)
Thu Nov 14 14:00:22 1996

Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 01:53:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Allen Francom <afrancom@numedics.transport.com>
To: Ray Curtis <ray@fred.net>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611141828.NAA00512@picard.comsat.net>
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Good question.  It is a default setting that came with my 3.0.3.

How do you know what to set ulimit to ?  I have little or no 
documentation about who,what,where,when or why. ???

Got any pointers for informative reading material ?

THX
-AEF


On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Ray Curtis wrote:

> Allen Francom writes:
>  > 
>  > Remember when I said some of my accounts were getting a ulimit error ?
>  > 
>  > I finally tracked it to, of course, /etc/profile where it says
>  > ulimit -c 1000000
>  > 
>  > Now then, some of my accounts work, and some do not.
>  > 
>  > It would appear that the ones that work were the accounts that I had 
>  > prior to installing shadow password support, and the ones that don't work 
>  > are the ones added with an adduser script that came with the shadow package.
>  > 
>  > My guess is that there is some kind of permissions thing, possibly groups,
>  > that isn't getting handled properly by the adduser script.
>  > 
>  > Any ideas ?
>  > 
>  Why do you have ulimit set to 1000000 I usually have mine set to 
> ulimit -c 0 so there are no core dumps ?
> 
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