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From: tel@moby.UUCP (Tom Lowe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to set ulimit in SysV
Message-ID: <113@Ahab.moby.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 11:55:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 11:55:36 1987
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References: <1408@dasys1.UUCP> <6475@brl-smoke.ARPA> <6502@brl-smoke.ARPA> <6497@oliveb.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T National Systems Support Center, South Plainfield, NJ
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Keywords: patch ulimit
Summary: ulimit for cron in SYSV
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In article <6497@oliveb.UUCP>, jal@oliveb.UUCP (Benjamin G. Golding) writes:
> In article <275@minya.UUCP>, jc@minya.UUCP (jc) writes:
> > 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
> 
> No.  This does not alter the ulimit for processes like cron and the
> jobs that it starts up.
> 
Very true unfortunately.......

Workaround:

in /etc/rc.d/cron add the line   'ulimit 40960' or whatever number
before the line '/etc/cron'

This same thing works for any shell script in rc.d that needs a 
larger ulimit.

For people who don't know what /etc/rc.d is, that's is a directory
that contains shell scripts that are executed every time the system
is taking to init run level 2  (look in /etc/rc2 to see how this
is done).

-- 
Tom Lowe {rutgers,gatech,huscb,burdvax,ihnp4,cbosgd}!psuvax1!moby!tel
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  Please call only if you have an AT&T computer under Warranty or if you
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