From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 30 18:14:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA02118 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 18:14:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA02111 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 18:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-ppp.i-connect.net) Received: (qmail 1334 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Oct 1997 02:15:08 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-beta-100797 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19971030210644.19187@crh.cl.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 18:15:08 -0800 (PST) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: Charles Henrich Subject: Re: Perils of login.conf (Was: fsck (2.2.5-RELEASE) large filesy Cc: Stephen McKay , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Robin Cutshaw Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Charles Henrich; On 31-Oct-97 you wrote: > > > 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? Not me :-) Sorry, I really do not know. --- If Microsoft Built Cars: Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.