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Date:      Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:21:42 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        "Operations <Jon Douglas>" <jdouglas@cjhost.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bg's
Message-ID:  <15144.51318.586434.911250@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <25494286@toto.iv>

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"Operations <Jon Douglas>" <jdouglas@cjhost.com> 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.

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> 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.

	<mike
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