rtprio and nice

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Fri, Jul 28, Lieven Moors wrote:

> hello everyone,
> i have some questions regarding the rtprio and nice-settings in the 
> limits-file.
> i am working with pam 0.99.4 and pam doesn' t recognize nice or rtprio as 
> valid limit items.
> the auth.log says "unknown limit item".
> did some googling and found out this might be a glibc problem: 
> RLIMIT_RTPRIO and RLIMIT_NICE not defined in the <bits/resource.h> file.
> i also found some hints that certain earlier pam patches resolved this by 
> defining these themselves.
> 
> my question is if recent pam-versions are  including these definitions, or 
> not, or that libc-patches or updates are necessary for rtprio and 
> nice-limits to work.

You need a current kernel and glibc for this. We will not add and maintain
hard coded defines in Linux-PAM only because people wish to use the latest
features without to update to software which provides this.

  Thorsten

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