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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:39:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Rick Siple <RickSiple@mpainc.com>
Cc:        "Questions Mailing List (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: login.conf behavior
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807291638580.24795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <11FFBC5E23EDD111AF8D006008CEB82D014DB9@EXCHANGESERVER>

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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Rick Siple wrote:

> 	During an attempt to build KDE 1.0 as a normal, non-root, user
> gcc returned a "virtual memory exhausted" error.  I gave my user the
> 'staff' login class and logged in/out.  Got the same error message.
> 	The 'staff' login does not seem to have any restrictions, but
> the 'root' class actually sets many resource limits to 'infinity'.  From
> this I am led to believe that there are some default soft/hard limits
> other than 'infinity' when left unspecified in the login class.  Is this
> correct?  Where do I find the values of the default limits?

You're hitting shell limits first.  Run `unlimit' before your `make'.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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