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 > > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux > _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
