From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 22 17:55: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF29A37B4CF for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:54:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAN1skB35566; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:54:47 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:54:46 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Richard B Mahoney Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Restricting a users CPU usage -- Possible? In-Reply-To: <20001123144644.B42752@student.canterbury.ac.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Richard B. Mahoney wrote: > Nonetheless, what I would like to do is to restrict the amount of CPU > that emacs has access to. In this way, if it decides to become a rogue > programme I can simply Ctl-Alt-F2 out of Blackbox, then log in as > root, and have sufficient CPU available to quickly put a stop to it. man 1 nice > Any assistance would be appreciated. > > Regards, > > Richard Mahoney > > > -- > ====================================================================== > Richard Mahoney /^^^\ Telephone: +64-3-351-5831 > 78 Jeffreys Rd (| , , |) > Christchurch | * | > NEW ZEALAND \_-_/ mailto:rbm49@csc.canterbury.ac.nz > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message