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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Another Annoying Microport Inquiry
Message-ID: <7501@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 17:14:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.7501
Posted: Wed Sep 30 17:14:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Oct-87 04:26:09 EDT
References: <1408@dasys1.UUCP> <6475@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: Microport patch ulimit
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In article <6475@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:

|ATTENTION ALL UNIX PORTERS:  Fix this!!  A 1Mb default ulimit is absolutely
|stupid!  Make the initial ulimit "infinite" (it can always be lowered by
|any user, typically in /etc/profile if the system administrator so chooses,
|but only a superuser can raise it).

I hope no one is listening... as far as I can tell /etc/profile is not
used in any way except by user logins via /bin/sh. One of the biggest
problems this might cause is alternate shells, such as uucico. I realize
that the hobbiest with 300 baud uucp is not going to get burned, but
commercial and business users, with 9600 baud connections, will be
unable to easily restrict the uploaded file size.

I agree that there should be a simple **well documented** way to change
this. As for the original problem, can't superuser set the ligit up as
well as down? I'm not root on this system and can't try.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me