Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:54:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com> Cc: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9909211654240.29803-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9909211616350.16568-100000@luna>
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Kip Macy wrote: > Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might make sense for > special cases e.g. a machine completely dedicated to one process -- It is > dangerous at best for the general case. Any malicious program can make a > machine running FreeBSD non-functional. The default should be set with the > average user in mind, namely protecting him from himself. > > > -Kip Except login.conf can do this too. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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