Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!texsun!texsun.central-relay.sun.com!convex!convexs!authorplaceholder From: hosking@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Fun with ignoreeof Message-ID: <65200006@convexs> Date: 14 Feb 88 18:04:00 GMT References: <2248@tekcrl.TEK.COM> Lines: 9 Nf-ID: #R:tekcrl.TEK.COM:-224800:convexs:65200006:000:385 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!hosking Feb 14 12:04:00 1988 /* Written 9:21 pm Feb 4, 1988 by davidbe@sco in comp.unix.questions */ > How about 'limit cputime 0' or 'limit memsize 0'. Both good ways to > leave quickly...just don't put them in your .login (or maybe .profile, > I haven't tried in bourne shell...) A slight variation on this: limit cpu 1e40 On a 4.3 VAX system, this has the additional "benefit" of core dumping your shell.