Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:16:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirk.vangulik@jrc.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-Questions: Crontab seems to give shell different limits than the normal user Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980603001555.22038p-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980602121105.3453O-100000@elpc36.jrc.it>
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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > On 2.2.6-stable it seems that when a user has a script ran by crontab, > the shell in which the script runs seems to be assigned lower limits > (by /etc/login.conf??) than when you run it from the command line > directly. Looking at the source for cron however suggest a simple > setgroups() so where am I going wrong; > > >From the command line: (sh ulimit -a) > > data seg size (kbytes, -d) 524288 >From crontab: > data seg size (kbytes, -d) 22528 Perhaps you have an `unlimit' in your .profile? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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