On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 03:44:48PM +0100, Tim Phipps wrote: > I'd like to be able to limit the damage done by a runaway DVD rip by setting > the fsize ulimit to ~ 10GB. That should allow normal DVDs to fit. > Editing /etc/security/limits.cong to include:
> * hard fsize 4194303 > works but limits files to 4GB which is not enough. Increasing the limit by 1 > removes the limit probably since it uses a 32bit type to talk to the kernel. I can confirm that pam_limits is not building with the correct LFS flags, and therefore uses 32-bit integers, and I've committed a fix for this. However, even after fixing pam_limits, the fsize limit is still not being set correctly for me, due to a bug either in eglibc or in the kernel. This is substantiated by the fact that I also can't set such a limit using the 'ulimit' command in bash. If you still see this problem after upgrading to pam 1.1.1-5, I suggest filing a bug on eglibc as well. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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