Re: OpenBSD and Apache

[Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>]

On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Justin Grudzien wrote:

> Ok well that seems to be a problem [/etc] root@barrayar# ulimit -a
> 
> 
> core file size (blocks)     unlimited
> data seg size (kbytes)      32768
> file size (blocks)          unlimited
> max locked memory (kbytes)  24012
> max memory size (kbytes)    72032
> open files                  64
> pipe size (512 bytes)       1
> stack size (kbytes)         2048
> cpu time (seconds)          unlimited
> max user processes          80
> virtual memory (kbytes)     34816
> [/etc] root@barrayar# 
> 
> 
> [/etc] root@barrayar# ps -aux | grep nobody | wc -l
>       79 
> [/etc] root@barrayar# 
> 
> ok I know how I can change the setting on a shell by shell basis however
> how do I impliment this globally so that these web processes will not be
> affected? What bounds does sh check when it is calling a shell or do I
> need to actually make nobody exempt for this? Any additional info would be
> greatly appreciated.

See the RLimitNPROC Apache directive.