On 4/17/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 01:01 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > There's no easy way to make Gentoo use a newer version of PAM? > > > > it currently uses pam-0.78-r3. Is this recent enough? > > > > No, that version is a year and a half old. The latest is 0.99. See > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/pre/library/ OK, let me look there. Thanks. > > > To be honest, I always denied to learn about PAM; upgrading it is > > simple, but I fear that after upgrading the system will behave strange > > (e.g. no login at all :) . > > > > Am I a chicken? Yes, looks like :) . > > Can you file a Gentoo bug report asking them to fully support the RTPRIO > rlimit? > I'd be happy to but it's likely to get done only when some ebuild developer wants to take it on. Who knows when that might happen, right? First step is for me to research the Gentoo bugzilla and see what I can find. I'll get back to you with that. I suppose all this would mean is that we cannot move forward with new kernels after they do this until the Gentoo guys have an ebuild for set_rlimits. (rlimits or rtlimits?) Thanks, Mark
