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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:17:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Goeringer, Michael" <goeringerm@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil>
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Subject: RE: capping forks
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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.


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