Someone at work gave me what I was looking for: setrlimit

namaste,
Mark


On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Mark wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:58:49 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Siglinux] stopping fork bombs in linux
>
>
> Ok,
>
>       So some unicies allow the sysadmin to set a user process limit
> system variable or something to prevent fork bombs.
>
> After a brief search, I found someone touting a kernel module that stops
> this (unaceptable) and some comments in the kernel that claim to stop
> this. However, I can definitely reproduce it on a 2.4.20 kernel.
>
> Anywho, if anyone knows of a way to eliminate this, please let me know. It
> will shorten my search.
>
> namaste,
> Mark
>
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