Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:57:20 +0100 (IST) | From | Paul Jakma <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler) |
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Bruce A. Locke wrote:
> I wasn't aware PAM settings affected daemons started up during boottime > but I will check into it, thank you. >
daemons generally don't need to be PAM aware (unless they deal with authorising things). The script that launches it however (if started by a PAM aware app such as su) can set limits - which the daemon should inherit.
> BTW, you said it works only 90%, what are the other 10% of times it > doesn't work? >
malicious processes, or a collection of processes.
--paulj
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