Brian Greenfield wrote:
>On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:12:12 +0900, Junichi Uekawa
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>In Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:10:20 +0100, de profundis "Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL
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>x.co.uk> cum veritas scribat
>
>>and see how many processes root is running ...
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>237!
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>Samba running as a daemon rather than from inetd seems to
>have cured it.
So all of a sudden, any process started through 'su root' is limited by
ulimit, which is counting all processes belonging to root, including daemons.
But a direct login to root is not limited in this way.
Why this change? and which package changed it?
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