Interactive 2.2 ULIMIT problem

[James Van Artsdalen]

In <1990Nov11.141858.2474 at pegasus.com>, richard at pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) wrote:

] As I remember, a user can lower their ulimit but not raise it.

| This is true, but that doesn't mean that the lower ulimit will apply
| for jobs submited for execution by at or cron.

> Yes, "at" does enforce the prevailing ulimit.

I suspect one could change this in /usr/lib/cron/.proto.  Mine contains

#ident	"@(#).proto	2.3 - 88/05/26"
cd $d
ulimit $l
umask $m
$<

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