From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 30 18:07:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA01642 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 18:07:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA01634 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 18:06:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA16563; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 21:06:44 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19971030210644.19187@crh.cl.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 21:06:44 -0500 From: Charles Henrich To: Simon Shapiro Cc: Robin Cutshaw , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Stephen McKay Subject: Re: Perils of login.conf (Was: fsck (2.2.5-RELEASE) large filesy References: <19971028160109.44474@num1sun.intercore.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: ; from Simon Shapiro on Tue, Oct 28, 1997 at 09:15:10PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1024/F7 FD C7 3A F5 6A 23 BF 76 C4 B8 C9 6E 41 A4 4F Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > After installing 2.2.5, I patched in the DPT driver so that the 9 GB > > scsi drives could be accessed. I found that the "daemon" section in > > login.conf does nothing during /etc/rc. I placed a ulimit -a just > > before the fsck there and found that the "default" section was being > > I alerted this list to this problem several times. It probably should be > a sysinstall parameter. I NEVER could boot without changing /etc/rc > without this fix. Actually, I set it to unlimited; It is sensitive to the > number of filesystems checked too. Maybe, I still think the default settings for all system processes should be unlimited. Who is the guy who actually checked these changes in? -Crh Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich