Re: [Jailkit-users] Prevent Fork Bombs on Jailed Python Interpreter

[Gregory Piñero]

On 10/25/07, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Greg,
>
> >> the standard thing that works against fork bombs: limit the number of
> >> processes.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks, that sounds like it would work.  Any advice on how to do that on 
> > Linux?
>
> This is usually done by setting values in limits.conf (to be found in /etc
> or /etc/security). The file comes with good comments and a few examples. So
> there is some basis there to work from.
> Remember that a normal shell session via jailkit already uses a few
> processes, so don't go setting the number too strictly. On the other hand,
> memory should probably be guarded more closely.
>

Thanks.  Is that a better approach than using ulimit?

-Greg