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From: "Goeringer, Michael" <goeringerm@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil>
To: "'Steve Hovey'" <shovey@buffnet.net>
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Subject: RE: capping forks
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:00:20 -0400
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In the kernel you can set CHILD_MAX=<your number here>.  Ofcourse this 
affects the entire system so Doug may have a better solution.

Michael G.

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From:  Steve Hovey[SMTP:shovey@buffnet.net]
Sent:  Thursday, September 18, 1997 9:36 PM
To:  freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:  capping forks


How does one safely limit the number of child processes a program can
fork?  The old smtp mailer I used did this fine, but smap does not and
occational spam attacks have made problems.

I compared source and they seem to use the same method but Im not up
enough on this to be sure.

Any ideas appreciated!