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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Jim Bryant wrote:
> well, there are other ways to make a system slow to a crawl....
> #!/bin/csh
> /usr/games/primes 1 4294967295 >&/dev/null&
> [...]

/etc/security/limits.conf

get the idea? :)

-Dan



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