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From: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: ulimit (was: getty/login for callback)
Message-ID: <630@eecea.eece.ksu.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 89 20:50:18 GMT
References: <628@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> <827@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull)
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In article <827@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>
>This is what I heard, also. But it fails to explain why increasing
>ones ulimit is restricted to root. If ulimit is only a safety belt,
>there isn't any good reason for preventing one from tightening or
>loosening it as needed.  

I installed a program called newlimit that allows normal users to
increase the ulimit on a particluar process.  That process can be
their shell if they choose, but I certainly do not recommend doing
that.  The only time we have a problem with a 1 MB ulimit is when we
are dealing with archives.  



-- 
Terry Hull 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University
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