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[Rick Moen]

begin  kevin at ank.com quotation:
 
> I don't know of any version of unix that has denial of service protection
> for process creation requests. 

You need to look up the limits.conf file syntax, specifically on control
items "nproc" (max number of processes), "nofile" (max. number of open
files), and so on. 

Start here:  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/

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