Re: Apple?

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From: Colin Smith
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 10:23

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: ] > What kind of UN*X are you running?  Anything close to modern will 
: ] > work with quotas, and at the VERY minimum, it will allocate a certain
: ] > amount of blocks to the super user which NOBODY else can touch.
: ] 
: ] I was the only user on this workstation, 99.99% of the time.  Why should I
: ] have to worry about quotas at all? Why should I, the user, have to do a
: ] hack with quotas?  I have to spend far, far too much time doing these
: ] little hacks. 

quotas a hack? it should be an integral part of your OS, then the superuser
sticks a line in /etc/profile that limits process size & space etc, it's
not
difficult. You obviously did need it though cos you crashed the machine.
--

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From: colins@mojo.europe.dg.com (Colin Smith)
Subject: Re: Apple?
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 10:23:39 GMT
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