On 2/2/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
