From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 20 11:05:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26245 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:05:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA26096 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:04:30 GMT (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0yRKUL-0006Bf-00; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:36:17 -0700 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:36:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Robert Withrow cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail error messages...caused by limits? In-Reply-To: <199804201748.NAA23356@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Robert Withrow wrote: > I am beginning to suspect that this is because I placed myself in the > "root" login group and when I do hefty compiles I somehow gobble up > resources that sendmail needs. I say this because these messages seem > to correlate in time with big builds. Do a "pstat -T" to find out. I find this doubtful, unless you have a really low MAXUSERS setting. A default GENERIC has thousands of descriptors. > Has anyone come up with a reasonable set of stuff to go into login.conf > that will support the needs of "power-developers" but not lead to > inadvertent denial-of-service attacks? ;-) login.conf can not increase the maximum limits. It just limits how much of the available resources you can use. If you are indeed using up all the resources, you just need to get more before even worrying about login.conf > (Assuming my assumption is correct). > > -- > Robert Withrow -- (+1 508 916 8256) > BWithrow@BayNetworks.com Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message