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Re: /etc/limits



On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote:

> He can't, true. But shell-based limits aren't particularily good way of setting
> limits. They are by definition bound to one kind of shell - csh or bash or
> whatever. In case you, or the user, decideds to change his shell, you loose
> all the limits. PAM and/or shadow utilities (or lshell) are much better.

Correct.  But this is the crux of this whole thread.  I don't see any way,
*other than* shell limits, of setting max Virtual Memory usage.  The other
resources yes, VMem no....


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