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Subject: How to set ulimit in SysV
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Date: Sun, 4-Oct-87 23:50:32 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  4 23:50:32 1987
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> >As for the original problem, can't superuser set the ligit up as
> >well as down?
> 
> That IS the original problem!  ONLY the super-user can get around
> the ridiculously small initial ulimit coded into the kernel!

OK, I decided to see how hard this one was; it took 15 minutes, of which
13 were due to a bug in init....

What you do is change your inittab entries for getty to:

	t3:2:respawn:/bin/sh /etc/Getty tty03 tty03

The /etc/Getty script looks like:

	ulimit 8000 # or whatever you like.
	exec /etc/getty $*

The bug in init is that the "/bin/sh " is required; init refused to run
a shell script directly.  [Grumble; the toikeys; grumble; wasting 13 
minutes of my time; grumble; had to go to 2nd terminal to recover when
the first one went zombie; grumble... :-]

There, wasn't that easy?

-- 
	John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)