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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Interactive 2.2 ULIMIT problem
Message-ID: <49632@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 12 Nov 90 06:34:32 GMT
References: <1990Nov09.120821.4975@virtech.uucp> <1990Nov10.034318.602@jadpc.cts.com> <1990Nov10.161538.11951@virtech.uucp> <1990Nov11.141858.2474@pegasus.com>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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In <1990Nov11.141858.2474@pegasus.com>, richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) wrote:

] As I remember, a user can lower their ulimit but not raise it.

| This is true, but that doesn't mean that the lower ulimit will apply
| for jobs submited for execution by at or cron.

> Yes, "at" does enforce the prevailing ulimit.

I suspect one could change this in /usr/lib/cron/.proto.  Mine contains

#ident	"@(#).proto	2.3 - 88/05/26"
cd $d
ulimit $l
umask $m
$<

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