Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 21:29, David Curry wrote:
No, the assumption is that the person installing the OS, expert orYour interpretation would be much better supported if there was some documentation available to that "person installing the OS" which informed them of the default installation settings and advisability of resetting for specific installation characteristics.
not, knows more about it's capabilities than the person who
built the distribution that will run on anything from a P100
or less to a multi-cpu, multi-Ghz box.
I simply can't believe that anyone who is obviously on the internet and capable of joining a mailing list can possibly think there is any lack of documentation available. It is true that a free product generally does not come with a marketing force that will take you to lunch or golf and hold your hand while you learn about the product, but the ulimit concept has been documented for anyone who cares to read about it long before Linux was even around (remember how Linux is a free implementation of the unix API...).
How about a third way? The argument so far has been between those that want some sort of default ulimit, and those who believe it is up the sysadmin to set.
How about if ulimit settings (and perhaps others) were part of the anaconda installer? Under/next to the SELinux tab wouldn't be too jarring for most people, with a paragraph in the help file just to hint at why/why not they should change this.
Or, as you already have them choosing the type of install (Personal desktop/ workstation/ server, custom) base the default ulimit setting on this, perhaps?
My $0.02
Ben O'Steen
