From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 7:21:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BA8A37B40C for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:21:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 91581 invoked by uid 100); 14 Jun 2001 14:21:42 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15144.51318.586434.911250@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:21:42 -0500 To: "Operations " Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bg's In-Reply-To: <25494286@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Operations " types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please don't do this on the FreeBSD lists. Just send the question in flat text, not HTML, and most especially not both. > ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C0F427.F1E82A40 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > How do you limit the amount of bg's back ground process for a user? > > Is this done in /etc/login.conf? > > I know you can control max processes but I want to control just the bg's > > How is this done? Since the system doesn't know whether a process is bg or not - some shells will let you move processes from the background to the foreground - the system can't do that for you. If you describe the reason you want to impose this restriction, we might be able to suggest alternative solutions. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message