On 2/2/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 14:57 -0500, Dana Olson wrote:
> > I haven't installed Dapper yet, but I will soon on a second hard drive.
> >
> > But, judging by the comments I've read elsewhere, PAM is not yet set
> > up in Dapper for rt stuff. I thought that it required a patch and a
> > special config? I don't know anything really about it at this point,
> > but someone emailed me and said they knew how and would email me back
> > with the howto, or add it to my site.
> >
> > I agree with you, but it is pretty easy to get the realtime-lsm module
> > installed, or to use the set_rlimits app. But PAM is the best option
> > from all I've read, and would make that part of the puzzle much
> > easier.
> >
>
> It was added to glibc 6 months ago, shortly after it was added to the
> kernel. And I have heard that the latest version of PAM supports it.
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2005-06/msg00007.html
>
> So, unless the Ubuntu devs really drop the ball, this should be in the
> next release.
>
> I've asked about it on the Ubuntu lists, and am checking the Dapper
> sources to be sure.
>
> Lee
Okay, I wasn't sure. I knew rlimits were put into kernel 2.6.12, but I
hadn't read anything about PAM. I won't be shocked if Ubuntu doesn't
have it fixed if Debian doesn't though. Please let us all know what
you find out.
Dana
Received on Fri Feb 3 00:15:07 2006
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