[NTLUG:Discuss] Setting coredumpsize in X

[Steve Baker]

Kevin Brannen wrote:
> 
> This is normally a function of the shell; even if that means the one
> that is the parent of your window manager.  Since you're using csh as a
> login shell, try putting your "limit" command in /etc/csh.login, or if
> you prefer, you're own ~/.login.  If that doesn't do it, I don't know.

I wonder if the problem is that X runs suid-root - and maybe root gets
to ignore the limits you set with the limit command?

Either way though, a "soft" limit presumably only applies to processes
started by the shell that ran the limit command and it's descendants.

A "hard" limit can only be set up by 'root'.

Hence you'd need to set soft limits up in your login script or
manually before doing a 'startx'.  Of course if you login via X
rather than on a dumb terminal then 'startx', you are probably
screwed anyway.

'ulimit' in bash has slightly different rules from csh's 'limit'
command.  It says you can't RAISE an existing hard limit (even
if you are root according to the manual).

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