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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