Hello, Recently a friend of mine was kind enough to hit refresh 700 times after requesting a depth 5 recursive validation from the validator on my web server. It's load levels went to above 150, hehe. Took me a couple of minutes to log in, and a couple to su to root, and more than 5 minutes to get the "killall validate.cgi" command executed. Quite amazing that the machine survived it all. GNU/Linux rules! ;)
Now I realise the time has come for me to set up some ulimits. I have some queries about the workings of /etc/security/ and /etc/pam.d/. If I set up limits in /etc/security/limits.conf, this will only apply to pam-enabled services with pam_limits.so in the corresponding file in /etc/pam.d/ ? Or does "login" cover everything? I see the following in pam.d/kde: password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5 What is the effect of this? I wanted to make my passwords 6 to 12, so I editted pam.d/login, is it necessary to e.g. edit the kde one too? (Everything appears to work well.) How would I give apache some ulimits, so that it doesn't spawn too many validators, or eat too much ram? (To me it doesn't look like simply editting /etc/security/limits.conf will work "out of the box" ?) Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe ps: please CC. (busy week)
