On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:09:58PM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> give it). I know there must be some way to limit a process's memory
> usage- at least enough to protect the kernel better.
Use limit. ;-) Create a system user account and a dedicated group for
the application. Use the group or user to limit the system resources
through pam_limits.so. The configuration file for pam_limits.so is
found in /etc/security/limits.conf. The syntax is fairly straight
forward, and you should fine reference to it fairly easily with your
distribution.
To use pam_limits.so, add it to the service file found in /etc/pam.d.
For example, if this application is being called via ssh from some
remote machine. Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/ssh:
session required pam_limits.so
--
Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/
assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */
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