Login class and limit

[Vagner]

On 17:47 Thu 06 Dec , Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Vagner <vagner at bsdway.ru> writes:
> 
> > On 06:53 Thu 06 Dec , Charles Swiger wrote:
> 
> >> "su -", "su -l", and "sudo -i" provide a login shell, which gets the
> >> limits setup by login.conf.  Normally daemons are started at boot
> >> via rc mechanism (or perhaps get spawned from inetd) and do not
> >> have a login shell associated with them to setup the limits.
> >> 
> >> Either use one of the su/sudo flavors I mention above, or "/bin/sh -l"
> >> to provide a login env to the process?
> >
> > ie means to implement restrictions limits(1) and login.conf(5) for daemons is not possible?
> 
> It's possible, but you would have to use a login shell, which is usually
> inconvenient for a daemon (not having an attached terminal for I/O).
> 
> The usual way to do this is to start the daemon in a script that
> explicitly sets the limits with /usr/bin/limits (or maybe ulimit, but
> limits(1) seems more common). Several ports do this, for example.
> 

Thx for all! I try starting daemon with explicitly sets from rc script.
Thanks again!

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