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Date:      Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:02:00 -0500
From:      Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Pagaime?= <jpsp@fccn.pt>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: inetd/daemon limits
Message-ID:  <20010802090200.B94419@comp04.prc.uic.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000d01c11b45$db85d8c0$dc0788c1@jpsp2>; from jpsp@fccn.pt on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:25:39PM %2B0100
References:  <000d01c11b45$db85d8c0$dc0788c1@jpsp2>

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> I would like to impose limits (max. memory, mostly) on a service
> spawned by the inetd...  Of course I could configure system wide
> limits through a kernel compilation, or "sysctl" calls, but I would
> prefer to fine tune this limits to one specific service (imapd).

Make a new login class in /etc/login.conf (called, say, "imapd") with
the resource limits you want.  Then, instead of putting just "root" in
the fifth field of the imapd line of /etc/inetd.conf, put "root/imapd"
to run with the new login class (the default is "daemon").

Lucas

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