From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 5:13:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from castle.dreaming.org (castle.dreaming.org [216.221.214.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 904A237B401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 05:12:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from Laptop (cr592943-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com [24.156.38.199]) by castle.dreaming.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f17DCuv45621 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:12:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mit@mitayai.net) From: "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" To: Subject: Limiting offline processes Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:11:43 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On one of my clients' shell boxes, some users run eggdrop bots in background processes while offline. While i'm not exactly thrilled about this, i can't really stop them as the client has promised users they could. However, i'm concerned about CPU time, mem usage, etc, and want to impose some sort of limitations. Is there a way to limit the resources their processes use, or how many processes they can have running in the bagground when not logged in? I'm running FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE... I *have* read the login.conf man page, and i admit that it really confuses me, so if the answer is in there, a little help interpreting it would be appreciated. Thanks, Mit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message