Re: Security - how to notice compromises.

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Al" == Al Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> writes:

    Al> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

    Al> Heh, true, but it's not really the number of processes that
    Al> does the damage so much as the rate at which they're created..
    >> On my system `ulimit -u' responds "256".

    Al> 146 on this one.. what does ulimit do then? Never seen it
    Al> before!! The man page is particularly poor.. in fact, no, I
    Al> don't have a man page for it, just the ulimit() c call. I hate
    Al> it when that happens....

ulimit is a bash-ism, see bash(1).  I don't know if there's a
standalone utility to manipulate user resource limits.

On my system, ulimit(3) says:

DESCRIPTION
       Warning:  This routine is obsolete. The include file is no
       longer provided by glibc.  Use getrlimit(2),  setrlimit(2)
       and sysconf(3) instead.  For the shell command ulimit, see
       bash(1).


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