Re: [HACKERS] (OT) Linux limits

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> > > I've got a (laptop) system running Mandrake 6.1 which is configured
> > > out of the box to disallow core dumps from users. root is allowed to
> > > increase the size limit (from tcsh, use "limit coredumpsize
> > > unlimited") but users are not allowed to do this for themselves.
> > are you looking for /etc/security/limits.conf ?
> 
> Thanks for the tip, and it looks like the right thing, but adding
> entries for core and rebooting does not help. I then tried upping a
> brute-force limit of zero imposed in the daemon startup function in
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions thinking that inetd or loginout or somesuch
> process might need to be higher (since all children inherit these
> limits apparently), but that does not seem to help. 

Under FreeBSD, we have a similar file: login.conf ... after modifying it,
though, you have to run a command to "compile" it ... do you have
something similar?