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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: LINT and GENERIC - between a rock and a generic place.
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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> More and more people are trying to use GENERIC as a template for their
> own kernels and they're losing, of course, because generic sets many
> limits (like max children or open files) too low.

  Now that we have login.conf this is pretty much a dead issue isn't it?
Why heavily customize the kernel config file, when you can do it with
login.conf?  In fact the stock login.conf already has a "news" class for
news server.

  I'm already working on removing all the customizations out of my kernel
config files, in order to use the more generic login.conf system.  Besides
the login.conf allows these to be set on a user by user basis.  You can't
do this with the kernel config.  This is real important with dual-use
servers.

Tom