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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: ulimit -- You don't need sources! (kind of long)
Keywords: ulimit
Message-ID: <666@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 6 May 89 11:17:16 GMT
References: <836@twwells.uucp> <4428@ihuxz.ATT.COM> <545@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> <2408@virginia.acc.virginia.edu>
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In article <2408@virginia.acc.virginia.edu>, scl@virginia.acc.virginia.edu (Steve Losen) writes:

> Ok -- so the obvious solution is to write a new /etc/init that
> sets the ulimit and then execs the real init, "/etc/init.real".
> Then every process on the system inherits the big ulimit.

I'd reconfigure the kernel with a larger ulimit instead.
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