Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:17:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Goeringer, Michael" <goeringerm@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil> Cc: "'Steve Hovey'" <shovey@buffnet.net>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: capping forks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970922211648.6177E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=Rome?Lab%l=KEYWEST-970922130020Z-1855@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil>
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On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Goeringer, Michael wrote: > In the kernel you can set CHILD_MAX=<your number here>. Ofcourse this > affects the entire system so Doug may have a better solution. I couldn't think of anything offhand. I'm not familiar with the login capabilities database though, there is a ``maxproc'' item that could be used to limit the number of childs. This would be user-wide and not overridable very easily. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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