Re: [Sheflug] ulimit

[Peter Collier <nospam [at] pecb.worldonline.co.uk>]

Chris J/#6 wrote:

> >
> > I was just wondering if there was a justification for 40Mb? I can't see
> > any security issue or anything. I think it is the bash default. Suprising
> > I can't find a reference to the problem on Google/Deja.
> >
>
> No reason that I can see ... it doesn't solve any security problem as
> nothing to stop a user creating multiple 40MB files to use deny others disk
> space...that's what quota's are for.
>
> No idea...
>
> Chris...
>
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I have also just installed  RH 7.1. In my etc/profile I have a line  "ulimit
-S -c 1000000 > /dev/null 2>&1

    Peter C.

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