On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 19:44 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:33 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Lee,
> > Is that what is specifically required or do we need PAM updated AND
> > some new ebuild for set_rlimits?
>
> One or the other - doing both would be pointless.
>
> Actually if your distros glibc is also old then you may need to patch
> PAM rather than upgrade it.
Someone linked to a page for Breezy earlier from my wiki, which IIRC
also used PAM 0.78 (it's been a while). That patch there should be
trivial to apply to Gentoo's PAM. And that's all that would be required.
> Basically set_rtlimits should be considered a stopgap measure to make
> non-root SCHED_FIFO work until your distro gets it together and updates
> their PAM and glibc ;-)
Or for users of Slackware or other such non-PAM-using distros. :)
> See why I recommend just upgrading to a distro with a quicker release
> cycle?
Yup. Dapper is just a month and a half away from proper release. ;)
> Lee
>
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