Re: System Tuning

David ``Joel Katz'' Schwartz (stimpson@stimpson.igc.net)
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 19:09:35 -0500 (EST)


Yes, that's exactly why I wrote lshell. It's available on sunsite
or its mirrors. Not sure if it made it to tsx-11. We use it on our user
machines here, and it does the job quite well.

On Sunsite, it's in system/Admin/login as lshell-2.01.tar.gz

Lshell can protect you against fork bombs, CPU hogging, memory
hogging, and so on.

Joel Katz

On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Karl Asha wrote:

> lilo@lions.reseq.ungov writes:
> > Yes, setrlimit calls which set the `hard' limit values should be able to do
> > this. But the place to do it is in your login.c, and probably in `su'....
> > Alan Cox suggests there's an alternate login.c floating around Sunsite that
> > does this. It seems to me that BSD has a format for various /etc/passwd
> > fields that enforce these limits for the various resources, though I don't
> > know if that alternate login.c uses said format. Seems to me this would be
> > a very good project for an ISP, if there's nothing readily available....
> >
> >
> > lilo
>
> I think he's referring to lshell, which is one sunsite somewhere in the
> Shells directory.
>
> Karl
>