On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:34:28AM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> 	Hello.  What I really want to do is change the default limit for all
> shells on the system.  Can I do this without recompiling the kernel?  Using
> sysctl seems like the obvious way to do it, but it sounds like that's not
> how it works.  So, how should I go about doing this?

You may want to have a look at login.conf(5)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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